Camryn Manheim

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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...”

“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.”

“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 pe...”