Camryn Manheim

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”