Camryn Manheim Quotes

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

Positive, Forgive, Energy

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

Women, Power, Stupid

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

Love, Women, Confidence

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

Life, Fat, Culture

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

Everything, Almost, Fat

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

Life, Waiting, Ahead

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

Love, Women, Men

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

Family, Parents, Another

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

Peace, Time, Long

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

Hate, Weight, Standard

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

School, Two, Learned

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

Career, Working, Jobs

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

Struggle, Justice, Law

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

Play, Actually, Bigger

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

Political, Different, Speak

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

Thought, Word, Fat

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

Reality, Play, Wanted

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

Amazing, Status, Celebrity

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

Dreams, Play, Show

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

Love, Good, Important

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

Parents, Maybe, Fit

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
Camryn Manheim

Women, Old, Big

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

Love, Change, End

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

Dad, Father, Memories

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Nationality: American

Born: March 8, 1961

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