Paul Raci Quotes

Paul Raci

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 7, 1948

You've got to just persevere, even when the believing isn't in you.

Paul Raci

Thank God for Deaf West Theater - if it wasn't for them, where the hell else was I going to exercise my acting chops? I had nothing. But you go from gig to gig and hope that something's going to happen.

Paul Raci

I love Bill Murray, he's the same age as me. I don't want to take any roles away from Bill, but I certainly would like to act with that guy.

Paul Raci

I don't have an alarm clock. I have a head clock.

Paul Raci

I grew up at Second City in Chicago.

Paul Raci

I started professionally acting in '80.

Paul Raci

There are too many talented deaf men and women out there who are actors, who really have chops, who really know what they're doing. So I'm trying to get the idea out there that there's more to be done as far as deaf characterizations. There's a lot more to be done.

Paul Raci

To anybody who considers themself a struggling actor, which is every single guy out here writing their own screenplay, don't give up. Just do the thing that's in front of you and keep on going. Don't give up.

Paul Raci

There's so much great imagery in sign language.

Paul Raci

Culturally deaf people don't want to be fixed. They don't feel impaired. They feel complete.

Paul Raci

A lot of what my parents went through, their history, lives in my body. I'm just a witness to what my father and mother's lives were like, growing up in the Chicago deaf community.

Paul Raci

Deaf culture, with a capital D, is just a whole world unto itself. When I was growing up, it was the Deaf world and the hearing world. The connection between the two did not exist.

Paul Raci

Everybody in Los Angeles is an actor, or they think they are, or they want to be. They're looking for that shot. And the way the system is here - that monster, that beast - it thrives on names and recognition. And the bottom line is the dollar.

Paul Raci

The number-one affliction of all of our veterans, of all of our wars - Iraq, Vietnam, back to the Civil War - all over the world, is hearing loss, for obvious reasons.

Paul Raci

How must that feel to any Deaf person, especially a culturally Deaf person, who hears nothing? Who goes through life, living their life here in America, and it's as though you're not really in your own country, because nobody speaks your language? It's devastating, to say the least, for many people.

Paul Raci