Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word ‘YOU’ and...

But I am completely confused in a room full of people. I don’t hear a word anybody says. I’m not able to enjoy parties for that reason.

I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I’m not whining and moaning inside as much.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I’ve ever met.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

Yoga is a life-saver.

Ask the right questions if you’re to find the right answers.

I’ve done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

In truth I don’t think when Landis wrote An American Werewolf he ever wrote it in terms as having an ongoing story, he wrote it as a complete piece.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

You know when I look at people, I don’t look at them with age at all, I just look at them as people, I never ask how old anyone is.

I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in...

I’m doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you’re paying them can they ever...

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it’s horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it...

I’m the one by the backdoor – I am not the one in the middle of the party.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

It’s funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I’ve only got to prevent it from getting worse.

I don’t have a problem with my body. I’m not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don’t think there’s any way round, I’m absolutely...

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There’s a difference.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of...

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

At times, I couldn’t understand what I was doing. I just knew I needed to stick with it. It was instinct, and that’s what I’ve always relied upon.

To this day I will not be called Steph.

It’s all about perfection, isn’t it?

I can pretty much tell the whole story through my eyes. Some of the best actors that you watch don’t have to physically do too much.

What I mean to say is that I’m old enough now and confident enough now not to be frightened of any of the possibilities life might offer.

I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.