Paul Raci

I started professionally acting in '80.

— Paul Raci

I got drafted and enlisted in the Navy.

— Paul Raci

Information is education. Education can change lives.

— Paul Raci

I don't have an alarm clock. I have a head clock.

— Paul Raci

I wanted to be an inspiration to anybody. I really do.

— Paul Raci

I knew early on that acting was cathartic. It was powerful.

— Paul Raci

I learned English second, as a secondary language.

— Paul Raci

I went to Vietnam. When I got back, it wasn't pretty.

— Paul Raci

My father was deafened at the age of six months from spinal meningitis, so he never knew sound at all.

— Paul Raci

Most of the deaf people I know are proud to be deaf, and whole and complete.

— Paul Raci

My mother lost her hearing at the age of five years old, from spinal meningitis.

— Paul Raci

We're in Hollywood. There's a lot of people, a lot of very talented people.

— Paul Raci

Culturally deaf people don't want to be fixed. They don't feel impaired. They feel complete.

— Paul Raci

You've got to just persevere, even when the believing isn't in you.

— Paul Raci

I've been trying to stay out of this social media thing. Although it pulls me back in every time I let go.

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I grew up in the Chicago Club of the Deaf. The Santa Claus I knew was a deaf Santa.

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Thank God for Deaf West Theater - if it wasn't for them, where the hell else was I going to exercise my…

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When I was a kid in Chicago, it was looked upon as something that you had to fix - that you were…

— Paul Raci

I was the go-between when my father needed to negotiate a contract whether it be our mortgage or my mother dealing with…

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I bought my house in Burbank, California not by being an actor. I've been a certified legal interpreter in the Los Angeles…

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It was all about doing theater in Chicago, and I still do some out here in Los Angeles. But there's a difference…

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I'm so grateful to Riz Ahmed for being so brilliantly heartbreaking for me to deal with him on screen, on set. He…

— Paul Raci

I went into Vietnam as a young man like John Wayne, because that's what my grandfather told me to do. But after…

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We all know in the deaf community, there are deaf actors, men and women who are highly, highly skilled, highly intuitive, highly…

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What I'm going to make sure happens, if I have anything to say about it, now that people are listening - we…

— Paul Raci

There are too many talented deaf men and women out there who are actors, who really have chops, who really know what…

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My mother and father put down some earnest money on a house on the north side of Chicago. I don't remember the…

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You have to go to the gym; you have to learn how to swim. The craft of acting is learning the lines…

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When I graduated from the University of Illinois, I sat down with my acting teacher, Bill Raffeld. I go, 'Bill, what's next…

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Rock 'n' roll has always had that devil-may-care, 'We're young! We're indestructible.' I felt that way. Everybody feels that way. But I…

— Paul Raci

How must that feel to any Deaf person, especially a culturally Deaf person, who hears nothing? Who goes through life, living their…

— Paul Raci

You're going to see more inclusion in casting in this town, in Hollywood. You're going to see a lot more differently abled…

— Paul Raci

I worked in many deaf ministries.

— Paul Raci

There's so much great imagery in sign language.

— Paul Raci

Deaf people are not a monolith.

— Paul Raci

I grew up at Second City in Chicago.

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My father died a happy, peaceful man.

— Paul Raci

American Sign Language is my native tongue. That's the first thing that I learned to communicate with.

— Paul Raci

I think deaf people are actually really good at listening, and how ironic is that?

— Paul Raci

I've got a grateful heart and I'm excited as hell for the future.

— Paul Raci