#cause

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. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #being #corps #felt #i

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

— Camryn Manheim

#because #hate #i #implies #overweight

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. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#california #college #get #growing #growing up

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. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #correct #could #different #different types

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. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#face #fall #good #i #important

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#big #else #knew #me #nobody

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #being #comes #culture #day

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#active #aids #awareness #because #breast cancer

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#concerned #else #going #nobody #time

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#because #been #chance #discover #every