Words matter. These are the best Camryn Manheim Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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.
Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
I’ve always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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.
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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.
My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn’t fit with their sensibilities.
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.
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.
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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.
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.
