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.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

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

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.