Camryn Manheim Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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