Stephanie Beacham Quotes

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Stephanie Beacham

Profession : Actress

Birth : February 28, 1947

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

Stephanie Beacham

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 deaf people.

Stephanie Beacham

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.

Stephanie Beacham

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

Stephanie Beacham

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

Stephanie Beacham

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

Stephanie Beacham

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

Stephanie Beacham

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 my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

Stephanie Beacham

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

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

Stephanie Beacham

When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

Stephanie Beacham

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

Stephanie Beacham

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

Stephanie Beacham

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

Stephanie Beacham