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.
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.
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.
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.
In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.
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.
