Norm Crosby Quotes

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

Anytime I do a movie or a TV show, I make them aware of my hearing loss at the beginning, and that makes it much easier for all of us to communicate and get the job done.

I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

Hearing aids didn't cause any problem with my social life, my career, no problem at all, and I've been wearing them for a long time. As a matter of fact, once I became an entertainer and started working on television, I was probably the first performer to talk about hearing problems on the air.

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney Boys' High School and to profit from the teaching there.

When I was losing my hearing, we had to buy hearing aids and they were incredibly expensive. It was a huge financial situation.

My dad lost his hearing in the last 18 months of his life, and as a result, I witnessed first-hand the effect that this can have on a family.

I was very shy. I didn't really hang around with hearing people very much. Mostly I had deaf friends.

I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some way in order for it to be on your radar.

People who are deaf or hard of hearing need all the support we can give them.

I don't know that hearing people have ever felt that experience of truly being left out. They have easy communication, while deaf people can't join in. It takes more time to communicate with us.

I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.

Deafness and sign language are extremely close to my heart.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

My problem is I don't see and hear that well, so when I go to the movies, I can make out what's going on, but I can't hear what they're saying. And after the movie, I have to ask whoever I'm with "now, what was that all about?"

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.