Richard Masur Quotes

• But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can’t. And I’m not talking about imagining what a deaf person’s whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

  Richard Masur

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• For example, the first time McDonald’s put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.

  Richard Masur

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  Tags in Person, Put, Happens

• Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

   

  Richard Masur

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  Tags in Myself, Believe, Character

• 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.

  Richard Masur

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• Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

  Richard Masur

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• No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don’t think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

  Richard Masur

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  Tags in Someone, Better, Ever

• I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I’ve also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven’t had contact with the deaf community.

  Richard Masur

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  Tags in Little, Thought, Community

• Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

  Richard Masur

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  Tags in Yourself, New, Words

• The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

  Richard Masur

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Before, Training

• There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

  Richard Masur

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  Tags in Different, Process, Sound

• You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

  Richard Masur

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• You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

  Richard Masur

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  Tags in Give, Themselves, Prove

Richard Masur (12)

Birth:	20th November, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Richard Masur is an American actor who has appeared in more than 80 movies during his career. From 1995-1999, he served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild. Masur sits on the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.

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