A biography for Camryn Manheimhasn’t been written yet.
“Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?”
“I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!”
“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.”
“Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.”
“Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.”
“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.”
“I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.”
“Almost everything I do is related to being fat.”
“So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.”
“The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.”
“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.”