Quotes by Camryn Manheim

About Camryn Manheim:

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, and "Control" on Person of Interest.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

Camryn Manheim

Being exposed to those beauty queens and Praying Mantises at the same time made me ask myself some hard questions. Would I have been so radical had I not been so fat? Could I have been one of the women on the other side parading my beauty of which I ...

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.

Camryn Manheim

I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?

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

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.

Camryn Manheim

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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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.

Camryn Manheim

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

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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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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.

Camryn Manheim

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.

Camryn Manheim

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

Camryn Manheim

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.

Camryn Manheim

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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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

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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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've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

Camryn Manheim

Author Bio

  • NameCamryn Manheim
  • Descriptionactress
  • BornMarch 8, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor