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

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.

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.

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

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.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.