Camryn Manheim Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

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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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• 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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• Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

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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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• 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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• Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

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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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• 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’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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• 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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• Isn’t it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

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

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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.

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