Author Profile
Camryn Manheim
1961 • American • Actress
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Collected Meditations
Showing 34 quotesWaiting, 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
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.— Camryn Manheim
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.— Camryn Manheim
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.— 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
So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say 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
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.— Camryn Manheim
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
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.— 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
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
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 placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.— Camryn Manheim