71 Quotes by Camryn Manheim

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?

4/16/85: 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.

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

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 is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

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

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

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