Occupation: Actress Birth: March 8, 1961
I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to.
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….
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….
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….
Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV..
Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!.
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 arriv….
My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other..
The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment..
I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended..
I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people..
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….
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 he….
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf..
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..
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world..