Top 33 Nyle DiMarco Quotes

I’m fortunate to have blue eyes!

My message to my deaf community is that we can redefine anything however we want. Anything is re-definable only if we believe and work hard for it.

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

I work out a lot.

Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.

If I’d been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.

I am one hundred percent ready to be a spokesperson for the deaf community.

I started to realize that there are a lot of people who are unaware of deaf culture, and I’ve been given a great platform to reframe the deaf community.

I love it when I surprise photographers that, despite the fact that I am deaf, I am capable of meeting their vision. I love it that I can read their body language and know what they do not like and what they do like.

I am a visual person, given that I am deaf.

I am truly humbled. Not only that I am going to be known as the final Top Model but as a final Top Model who is deaf! And that is an amazing tagline. This proves that deaf people can do anything and everything.

There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.

I would love to work with Mario Testino. I respect all the work he has done and is doing.

I love working with photographers.

My mom did a great job because ever since I was born, she would put me into any type of sporting activity with hearing teams.

I was doing a little modeling on the side. Then ‘ANTM’ found me on social media, and it pretty much flipped my life around, all for the better.

I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.

When I signed up for ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I was nervous. If I threw everything off, there are 10-15 million people watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn’t want that.

Right after college, I was trying to figure out what to do. Teach? Act? Model? Do PR for the deaf community? And now I’m doing all I dreamed of and more.

As a sexually fluid deaf man, I know that embracing all our identities is the way to thrive and to overcome the limitations and prejudices that surround us.

I have my own foundation, Nyle DiMarco Foundation, and it focuses on bettering deaf youths’ lives.

I feel the need to reframe our community positively and better deaf youth’s lives, and with the ‘DWTS’ platform, I can – but it’s not enough until I win.

I’m ready to take the world by storm and have them look at me and say, ‘Deaf people can dance.’

I love to cook breakfast. I am a morning person.

I never danced growing up.

I got my mathematics degree because I wanted to teach deaf children math.

There are so many deaf kids out there being deprived of their own language.

I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign… I couldn’t really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.

In middle school, I had the best math teacher I’ve ever had, and he was deaf… and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.

Growing up, I was always involved in the deaf community.

I think we really do need deaf people out there writing their own shows.

A relationship isn’t a priority of mine but, you know, I’m hoping soon enough.

We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don’t realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.