If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do ….

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

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

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 thin? There are fat people in the worl….

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

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow ….

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

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

Almost everything I do is related to being fat..

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty..

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

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 ….

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

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

You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are..

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. A….

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 cou….

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..

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….

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 peo….

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 Uni….