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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

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.

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.

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