Quotes from Camryn Manheim

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.

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

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

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.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

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

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

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

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

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

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

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

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.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

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.

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

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

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.

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.

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

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