Quotes by Stephanie Beacham

• Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.
• I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.
• 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.
• 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.
• I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.
• I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.
• But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.