Camryn Manheim Quotes
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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.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.
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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.
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I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.
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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.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old
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Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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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.
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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.
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Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.
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The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.
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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.
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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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
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