Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

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

The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.

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

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

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

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

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

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

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