Camryn Manheim Quotes
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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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.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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On a weekly television series, we don't have a lot of preparation time: most often we get the script two or three days before filming.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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In the theater, when I'm working on a character, I have a script and I know the beginning, the middle, and the end.
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It is a big deal that I look good and not dumpy. 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. After all, that is the goal of being on TV, isn’t it? It’s all about bein’ loved.
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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.
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You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.
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If I am presented with the choice of a rice cake or tiramisu, I know that Ms. Smith would so desperately want me to choose that rice cake ... But that's not living. That's merely existing. And I want to live in a world with tiramisu.
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I grew up with a very political legacy.
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But everybody was fascinated by the fact that I was able to talk about being fat.
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My brother works for the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) my parents have been arrested for civil disobedience numerous times and I have as well.
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people. Every billboard, every magazine, and every commercial tells me I should hate my body. There are billion-dollar industries invested in me hating my body: the fashion industry, the diet industry, the nutrition industry, and the cosmetic surgery industry are all invested in my hating my body. If women of my size were to actually enjoy being their size, those industries would collapse.
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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.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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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.
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I come from the theatre. In the theatre, when I’m working on a character, I have a script and I know the beginning, the middle, and the end. I was trained to look at the "arc" of the character: to start out with the characters not knowing so much about themselves, embarking on the journey to learn about who they are, and in the end to have made some great discovery. And that’s what makes great theatre. Where my training falls short is in what happens when you don’t know what discovery is going to be made.
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No I graduated college and went to NYU for a graduate program and studied some sign language while I was there.
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The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.
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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.
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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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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.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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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.
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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.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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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.
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My parents are so proud, and while they are not really willing to take responsibility for some of the things they said in the past, they do, in their silence, make some apology for it. I think they choose not to really confront the issue of me growing up fat, and how they, in their attempts to protect me from other people, actually caused me a whole other set of sorrows. They were afraid that I would suffer a lot because the world hates fat people. Our culture, to be more specific, really hates fat people. Or were they just embarrassed that I wasn’t the perfect child? Well, they’re certainly not embarrassed anymore. They get so much pride and enjoyment out of my success, which I am happy to share with them. Despite what they did or didn’t do regarding my body image, to me, it’s all outweighed by what they did do, which was to give me unconditional love and support for my passion for the arts.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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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.
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Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
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I’ve always thought of fat as just a descriptive word. I’m blonde, I have blue eyes, and I’m fat. I guess it does carry with it a negative connotation from the past, but in order to change that, you just simply have to use it without apologizing for it.
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
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