71 Quotes by Camryn Manheim

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

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. And the problem is they don’t tell you in advance.

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.

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.

I’ve always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

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

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.

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?