Words matter. These are the best Conchata Ferrell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve always had the laugh. It just happens. It used to embarrass my parents.
My only apology for my weight right now is maybe it’s not too healthy.
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’ve never missed a single Christmas with my parents.
My mama’s name is Mescal.
In 20 years in the business I’d never done a love scene.
I’m a person who’s meant to be heavy, but I need to take off 50 pounds. Blood pressure. I’m gonna try Weight Watchers.
I love playing women who have the nerve to do things that I don’t have the nerve to do, and Berta is certainly one of those.
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.
I had wanted to become an actress, but in Cane Fork where I come, from being an actress meant the movies and Kim Novak. So I didn’t try.
I feel like the reason I’ve survived in this business is because I love acting.
That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.
April was my first major role and provided me with my Equity card.
Nobody from Cane Fork ever got on television before.
I wasn’t a Deadhead, and I didn’t follow a band around, but I definitely was an old hippie.
I’ve been very lucky and fortunate to make my living doing the thing I love.
I love acting better than anything, and I do it better than anything else I do.
Some people saw Bobby Kennedy as ruthless. I’m sure he did not see himself as ruthless.
Barbra Streisand did us all a great service when she didn’t get her nose fixed.
It’s a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.
I used to be asked in interviews what I see for myself 10 or 15 years down the line, and I would say that I see wonderful and interesting things to do.
I’ve even done a few student films over the years, because I believe in giving something back.
No actor is worth $3 million, not even Marlon. It puts too many other actors out of work.
But I really have no desire to get thin; 175 is my normal weight.
The best story about Berta is my audition. I think they wanted her to be the ethnic character. They asked me to come with an Eastern European accent.
My father wanted me to go into politics but I ended up on television.
Susan Bloom is a combination of the super agent and the super lawyer.
I’m a really good supporting player.
A couple of times I’ve gotten really angry because I was fat.
I grew up in Appalachia, and I’ve seen people milk cows and slaughter pigs and plow with a big-footed horse. It’s not like I was a city child.
Losers don’t always know that they are losers.
Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it’s more acceptable to be heavy if you’re lower middle class and blue collar.
There’s nothing so interesting as a steam roller that’s about to be derailed.
My family was disappointed when I named my child Samantha, but they named one of my cousins Rapunzel, and I just felt that was going too far.
I got into acting because nothing else worked. I have done literally everything. I have sold magazines door-to-door. I’ve worked on an assembly line in a factory, a restaurant, the desk at a hotel. I’ve worked in statistical typing, taught school. You name it, I tried it, and nothing worked.
