Camryn Manheim

Quotes by Camryn Manheim

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Actress · American · 1997–2004

American actress (born 1961)

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“Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.”

“Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?”

“One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.”

“Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.”

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“Being exposed to those beauty queens and Praying Mantises at the same time made me ask myself some hard questions. Would I have been so radical had I not been so fat? Could I have been one of the w...”
— Camryn Manheim
beauty beauty-pagent fat feminism

“Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.”
— Camryn Manheim
Royalty Size Years

“Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?”
— Camryn Manheim
Celebrity Most Status

“Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.”
— Camryn Manheim
World Forgive

“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...”
— Camryn Manheim
Love I Am Help

“One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.”
— Camryn Manheim
Memories Father Me

“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 repr...”
— Camryn Manheim
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