Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
Camryn Manheim

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.
Camryn Manheim

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.
Camryn Manheim

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
Camryn Manheim

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!
Camryn Manheim

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
Camryn Manheim

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
Camryn Manheim

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.
Camryn Manheim

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
Camryn Manheim

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.
Camryn Manheim


I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
Camryn Manheim

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 wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
Camryn Manheim

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
Camryn Manheim

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.
Camryn Manheim

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
Camryn Manheim

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.
Camryn Manheim

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.
Camryn Manheim

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.
Camryn Manheim

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
Camryn Manheim