Camryn Manheim Quotes

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

  Camryn Manheim

• 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.

  Camryn Manheim

• I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

  Camryn Manheim

• 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.

  Camryn Manheim

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

  Camryn Manheim

• I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

  Camryn Manheim

• I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

  Camryn Manheim

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

  Camryn Manheim

• I don’t even like to be naked in front of myself!

  Camryn Manheim

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

  Camryn Manheim

• 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.

  Camryn Manheim

• 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.

  Camryn Manheim

• Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

  Camryn Manheim

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

  Camryn Manheim

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Dad

Camryn Manheim (34)

Birth:	8th March, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Camryn Manheim is an American actress known primarily for her roles as attorney Ellenor Frutt on ABC's The Practice, Delia Banks on CBS's Ghost Whisperer and as Elvis's mother, Gladys Presley in the 2005 mini-series Elvis.

Related Authors

• Lauren Hutton
• Elizabeth Ashley
• Gennifer Flowers
• Anne Baxter
• Carol Channing
• Pamela Anderson
• Barbara Billingsley
• Hattie McDaniel
• Minnie Maddern Fiske
• Moira Kelly

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 22nd November

Births

• 1782 - Sophie Swetchine
• 1744 - Abigail Adams
• 1984 - Scarlett Johansson
• 1976 - Ville Valo
• 1950 - Tina Weymouth

Deaths

• 1996 - Ray Blanton
• 2001 - Norman Granz
• 1902 - Walter Reed
• 1918 - Randolph Bourne
• 2001 - Mary Kay Ash