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

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"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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"Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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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