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I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

- Marlee Matlin
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I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

I did my first series lead back in 1991 on a show called 'Reasonable Doubts' and have done many shows with other actors who are deaf. But 'Switched at Birth' is the first TV show where there is more than one actor who is deaf or hard of hearing and who are series regulars.

I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.

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I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.