Paul Raci Quotes

Paul Raci

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 7, 1948

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

Paul Raci

I'm so blessed that the garden I'm able to pull from, the actor's garden, is as rich as it is.

Paul Raci

You have to go to the gym; you have to learn how to swim. The craft of acting is learning the lines and everything, however, if you jump into the river and you drown, whose fault is that? It's not the river's fault. You've got to learn your craft before you jump in that river.

Paul Raci

You've got to learn your craft; you've got to do it every day. Find a partner. If you're a writer, you've got to write every day. If you're an actor, you've got to act every day.

Paul Raci

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

Paul Raci

My dad felt oppressed by the hearing man. All his friends would express to me sometimes how oppressive their own country was and how they had to speak a foreign language in their own country constantly because nothing was captioned.

Paul Raci

Information is education. Education can change lives.

Paul Raci

As a little boy it angered me to see my dad with no chance of moving up. He'd come home, slump-shouldered with the Chicago Tribune under his arm after a long day working menial jobs to support his family. He had no way, no clear path to get ahead in this world. He never had a shot, never had a chance.

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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 and Chicago court system for 35 years. That's how I've lived my life and gotten by.

Paul Raci

When I grew up in the '50s, people were called 'hearing-impaired.' And then the consciousness of the community shifted: 'I'm not hearing-impaired. I'm deaf. Call me what I am.'

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

Paul Raci

CODAs born after 1980 are a different breed. They're so free, because there's an interpreting profession. There was no profession when I was a kid. It could be a harrowing situation, to put a child through that.

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Riz is brilliant. Intense, purposeful. When I first met the guy, the very first time I met him, an hour later, we were doing a scene, we don't know each other.

Paul Raci

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

Paul Raci

I moved out here when I was 40 and guess what, they are not looking for 40-year-olds in Hollywood.

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Deaf people are not a monolith.

Paul Raci

Your body is speaking all the time even if you don't say anything. Not only is your face screaming what you're thinking, but so is your body.

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

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

Paul Raci

My wife has been my agent for 20 years now and she's been in there fighting for me.

Paul Raci