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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.
Camryn Manheim
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Camryn Manheim
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 8
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fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women. ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.
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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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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities
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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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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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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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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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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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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.
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Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!
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You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.
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If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.
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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?
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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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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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