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

- Camryn Manheim

When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

- 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

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

- Camryn Manheim

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.

- Camryn Manheim

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.

- Camryn Manheim

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.

- Camryn Manheim

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.

- Camryn Manheim

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

- Camryn Manheim

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

- Camryn Manheim

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

- Camryn Manheim

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

- Camryn Manheim

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

- Camryn Manheim

The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

- Camryn Manheim

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

- Camryn Manheim

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

- Camryn Manheim

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

- Camryn Manheim

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

- Camryn Manheim

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

- Camryn Manheim

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.

- Camryn Manheim