Explore Quotes by Camryn Manheim

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

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

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 world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?

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

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.

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.

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