When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.