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.

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

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.

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.

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

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.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.