Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

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

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

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 represent them?

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

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to

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