Quotes from Conchata Ferrell

No diet but plan weight-watching works for me. I'm a voracious eater, that's all.

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

I'm a really good supporting player.

I'm a compulsive overeater. It's something I need help to work on.

I feel like the reason I've survived in this business is because I love acting.

I loved Susan Bloom from the moment I heard about her. I admire her chutzpah.

Susan Bloom is a combination of the super agent and the super lawyer.

My only apology for my weight right now is maybe it's not too healthy.

In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent.

I'm overweight and over 40. I usually play nurses and prison guards.

That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.

There are a lot of fat women on TV. I know. I've made my living playing them.

April was my first major role and provided me with my Equity card.

Barbra Streisand did us all a great service when she didn't get her nose fixed.

Nobody from Cane Fork ever got on television before.

I was with Lanford Wilson in Philadelphia watching a play of his when the call came from Hollywood. 'Norman Lear wants to do 'Baltimore' on television,' Lanford said. 'What do you think?'

But I really have no desire to get thin; 175 is my normal weight.

Fat women are the last minority. I think it's the shape of our culture. What is to be admired is girls with the bodies of 14-year-old boys.

I was a political hippie.

I wasn't a Deadhead, and I didn't follow a band around, but I definitely was an old hippie.

I was a hippie. I dropped in and out of everything. Then I found acting. It really grounded me.

No actor is worth $3 million, not even Marlon. It puts too many other actors out of work.

I've been overweight since puberty, so acting was never a dream.

I did sketches and had the best time of my life because people were laughing. I was not self-conscious, because they laughed when I wanted them to.