Conchata Ferrell

I'm a really good supporting player.

— Conchata Ferrell

I worry about whether people like me.

— Conchata Ferrell

My mama's name is Mescal.

— Conchata Ferrell

It's OK to say I'm fat.

— Conchata Ferrell

I was a political hippie.

— Conchata Ferrell

Barbra Streisand did us all a great service when she didn't get her nose fixed.

— Conchata Ferrell

I'm overweight and over 40. I usually play nurses and prison guards.

— Conchata Ferrell

April was my first major role and provided me with my Equity card.

— Conchata Ferrell

There are a lot of fat women on TV. I know. I've made my living playing them.

— Conchata Ferrell

I've been overweight since puberty, so acting was never a dream.

— Conchata Ferrell

A couple of times I've gotten really angry because I was fat.

— Conchata Ferrell

Some people saw Bobby Kennedy as ruthless. I'm sure he did not see himself as ruthless.

— Conchata Ferrell

Nobody from Cane Fork ever got on television before.

— Conchata Ferrell

Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it's more acceptable to be heavy if you're lower middle class and blue…

— Conchata Ferrell

I did sketches and had the best time of my life because people were laughing. I was not self-conscious, because they laughed…

— Conchata Ferrell

The best story about Berta is my audition. I think they wanted her to be the ethnic character. They asked me to…

— Conchata Ferrell

When you're carrying weight, you have more power. People certainly don't look at you as a bimbo.

— Conchata Ferrell

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…

— Conchata Ferrell

That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.

— Conchata Ferrell

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

— Conchata Ferrell

Fat women are the last minority. I think it's the shape of our culture. What is to be admired is girls with…

— Conchata Ferrell

I was with Lanford Wilson in Philadelphia watching a play of his when the call came from Hollywood. 'Norman Lear wants to…

— Conchata Ferrell

There are a couple of things I would have liked to have done, but the producer or director couldn't stretch the concept…

— Conchata Ferrell

I went around to see the shows in New York, ending up at the Circle Company one night. I fell in love…

— Conchata Ferrell

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…

— Conchata Ferrell

My only apology for my weight right now is maybe it's not too healthy.

— Conchata Ferrell

But I really have no desire to get thin; 175 is my normal weight.

— Conchata Ferrell

I wasn't a Deadhead, and I didn't follow a band around, but I definitely was an old hippie.

— Conchata Ferrell

We've never seen a really fashionable, smart, powerful fat woman on TV before.

— Conchata Ferrell

Susan Bloom is a combination of the super agent and the super lawyer.

— Conchata Ferrell

In 20 years in the business I'd never done a love scene.

— Conchata Ferrell

I've always had the laugh. It just happens. It used to embarrass my parents.

— Conchata Ferrell

I love acting better than anything, and I do it better than anything else I do.

— Conchata Ferrell

I feel like the reason I've survived in this business is because I love acting.

— Conchata Ferrell

I've never missed a single Christmas with my parents.

— Conchata Ferrell

I don't trip all over my ego. I don't mind being a second banana.

— Conchata Ferrell

I'm a compulsive overeater. It's something I need help to work on.

— Conchata Ferrell

There's nothing so interesting as a steam roller that's about to be derailed.

— Conchata Ferrell

In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent.

— Conchata Ferrell

My father wanted me to go into politics but I ended up on television.

— Conchata Ferrell