53 Quotes by Conchata Ferrell

I was a hippie. I dropped in and out of everything. Then I found acting. It really grounded me.

No diet but plan weight-watching works for me. I'm a voracious eater, that's all.

I love acting better than anything, and I do it better than anything else I do.

I've been overweight since puberty, so acting was never a dream.

The best story about Berta is my audition. I think they wanted her to be the ethnic character. They asked me to come with an Eastern European accent.

I had wanted to become an actress, but in Cane Fork where I come, from being an actress meant the movies and Kim Novak. So I didn't try.

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

It's OK to say I'm fat.

In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent.