 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended. |
| I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word. |
| 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. |
| Almost everything I do is related to being fat. |
| 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. |
| My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities. |
| 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. |
| So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it. |
| I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people. |
| One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. |
| Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds? |
| Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV. |
| 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. |
| When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight. |
| Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old. |
| I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. |
| 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. |
