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Camryn Manheim Quotes

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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