Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

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.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

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

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.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

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.