Quotes by Marion Ross

• I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.
• The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.
• The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
• Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
• Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.
• Prague is the Paris of the '90s.
• I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.
• I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.
• I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.
• Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
• But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
• Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.
• I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
• I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.