Ask Quote by Stella Young

When people learn they'll be working with deaf actors, they think, 'She needs an interpreter.' But they often don't realise they need to think…

— Lauren Ridloff

I have heard so many stories about deaf people going to a doctor, they ask for an interpreter, and they don't refer them an…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

Every job I have been given, I have always been the only deaf person and it always comes with its challenges and issues.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

To really understand a deaf person's experience, you need someone that is deaf to be able to tell you what their experience is.

— Millicent Simmonds

It is my hope that, by sharing my thoughts and feelings, I will encourage you to think about how you can improve the experiences…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the…

— Paul Tournier

Just hiring a deaf actor is not a job well done.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh,…

— Aaliyah

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days…

— Liz Carpenter

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

— Paul Raci

There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that…

— I. King Jordan

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made…

— Harriet Martineau