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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

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• Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

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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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Camryn Manheim (34)

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

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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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