Marlee, what are you doing? Get under a tent before you burn your skin. " She gave me a polite smile. "I'm happy here. " "No, really," I said, putting a hand around her arm. "You'll look like my hair.
At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.
Marlee [Matlin] is who she is and just happens to use an interpreter. I'm not a teacher. I'm not a helper. I'm just Jack, the interpreter guy.
When Marlee [Matlin] won her Oscar, she said, "and I just want to thank my parents. " When I was saying those words for her, I knew my parents were in the audience. I was saying it for her and a little bit for myself, even though I wasn't saying it in sign language and they didn't understand what I was saying.