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Camryn Manheim is an American actress best known for her role as Samantha Spade in the television series 'CSI: NY'. Born on March 8, 1961, she has been active in the entertainment industry since the 1980s.

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“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.”

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Author:Camryn Manheim

“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.”

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Author:Camryn Manheim

“I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?”

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Book:Wake Up, I'm Fat!

Source: Wake Up, I'm Fat!

“I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.”

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Author:Camryn Manheim

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

People Hate Culture Fats Fat People

Book:Wake Up, I'm Fat!

Source: Wake Up, I'm Fat!

“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.”

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Author:Camryn Manheim

“On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people”

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Author:Camryn Manheim

“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.”

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Author:Camryn Manheim

About the Author

Born: March 8, 1961
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 40

Books & Sources

Wake Up, I'm Fat!Related source material

Wake Up, I'm Fat!: A MemoirRelated source material

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