Quotes from Camryn Manheim

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

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.

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.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

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.

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 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?

4/16/85: If I were thin, I'd never say "I am powerless over fudge." a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.

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.

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

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

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.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

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

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

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.

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.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.