Camryn Manheim Quotes

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?

Try as I might, I couldn't destroy my spirit. And try as I might, I couldn't change who I was. I was left with what to me seemed to be the most difficult option: loving myself just the way I am.

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!