Conchata Ferrell

“No actor is worth $3 million, not even Marlon. It puts too many other actors out of work.”

“I worry about whether people like me.”

“I love playing women who have the nerve to do things that I don't have the nerve to do, and Berta is certainly one of those.”

“My family was disappointed when I named my child Samantha, but they named one of my cousins Rapunzel, and I just felt that was going too far.”

“But I really have no desire to get thin; 175 is my normal weight.”

“I did sketches and had the best time of my life because people were laughing. I was not self-conscious, because they laughed when I wanted them to.”

“It's OK to say I'm fat.”

“Losers don't always know that they are losers.”

“I've always had the laugh. It just happens. It used to embarrass my parents.”

“I was a political hippie.”

“I love acting better than anything, and I do it better than anything else I do.”

“I'm a compulsive overeater. It's something I need help to work on.”

“My father wanted me to go into politics but I ended up on television.”

“That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.”

“I got into acting because nothing else worked. I have done literally everything. I have sold magazines door-to-door. I've worked on an assembly line in a factory, a restaurant, the desk at a hotel. I've worked in statistical typing, taught school. You name it, I tried it, and nothing worked.”

“I went around to see the shows in New York, ending up at the Circle Company one night. I fell in love with the people and started hanging around. It was a family. I liked the way they talked and the quality of work. I learned everything there.”

“I don't trip all over my ego. I don't mind being a second banana.”

“Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it's more acceptable to be heavy if you're lower middle class and blue collar.”

“I wasn't a Deadhead, and I didn't follow a band around, but I definitely was an old hippie.”

“When you're carrying weight, you have more power. People certainly don't look at you as a bimbo.”