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

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

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

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

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word

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?

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