Camryn Manheim Quotes

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• I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to
• I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be…
• Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
• I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
• Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
• I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
• 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…
• I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
• 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…
• 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…
• I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word
• Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old
• My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities
• Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on
• 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…

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