Top 53 Quotes & Sayings by Conchata Ferrell
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent.
I've always had the laugh. It just happens. It used to embarrass my parents.
I grew up in Appalachia, and I've seen people milk cows and slaughter pigs and plow with a big-footed horse. It's not like I was a city child.
I've been very lucky and fortunate to make my living doing the thing I love.
I got into acting because nothing else worked. I have done literally everything. I have sold magazines door-to-door. I've worked on an assembly line in a factory, a restaurant, the desk at a hotel. I've worked in statistical typing, taught school. You name it, I tried it, and nothing worked.
A couple of times I've gotten really angry because I was fat.
The best story about Berta is my audition. I think they wanted her to be the ethnic character. They asked me to come with an Eastern European accent.
I love acting better than anything, and I do it better than anything else I do.
But I really have no desire to get thin; 175 is my normal weight.
Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it's more acceptable to be heavy if you're lower middle class and blue collar.
Losers don't always know that they are losers.
My mama's name is Mescal.
That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.
I used to be asked in interviews what I see for myself 10 or 15 years down the line, and I would say that I see wonderful and interesting things to do.
Fat women are the last minority. I think it's the shape of our culture. What is to be admired is girls with the bodies of 14-year-old boys.
I was a political hippie.
My family was disappointed when I named my child Samantha, but they named one of my cousins Rapunzel, and I just felt that was going too far.
My only apology for my weight right now is maybe it's not too healthy.
We've never seen a really fashionable, smart, powerful fat woman on TV before.
There's nothing so interesting as a steam roller that's about to be derailed.
Barbra Streisand did us all a great service when she didn't get her nose fixed.
April was my first major role and provided me with my Equity card.
I did sketches and had the best time of my life because people were laughing. I was not self-conscious, because they laughed when I wanted them to.
It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.
In 20 years in the business I'd never done a love scene.
Susan Bloom is a combination of the super agent and the super lawyer.
When you're carrying weight, you have more power. People certainly don't look at you as a bimbo.
I don't trip all over my ego. I don't mind being a second banana.
I was with Lanford Wilson in Philadelphia watching a play of his when the call came from Hollywood. 'Norman Lear wants to do 'Baltimore' on television,' Lanford said. 'What do you think?'
My father wanted me to go into politics but I ended up on television.
I worry about whether people like me.
There are a couple of things I would have liked to have done, but the producer or director couldn't stretch the concept to allow for my size. Whenever that happens, I just say, 'Deal with it, and try to get the weight off, and get on with your life.'
I had wanted to become an actress, but in Cane Fork where I come, from being an actress meant the movies and Kim Novak. So I didn't try.
I feel like the reason I've survived in this business is because I love acting.
I've never missed a single Christmas with my parents.
I'm a person who's meant to be heavy, but I need to take off 50 pounds. Blood pressure. I'm gonna try Weight Watchers.
I was a hippie. I dropped in and out of everything. Then I found acting. It really grounded me.
I've been overweight since puberty, so acting was never a dream.
No diet but plan weight-watching works for me. I'm a voracious eater, that's all.
I've even done a few student films over the years, because I believe in giving something back.
I loved Susan Bloom from the moment I heard about her. I admire her chutzpah.
Some people saw Bobby Kennedy as ruthless. I'm sure he did not see himself as ruthless.
There are a lot of fat women on TV. I know. I've made my living playing them.
I'm a really good supporting player.
It's OK to say I'm fat.
I love playing women who have the nerve to do things that I don't have the nerve to do, and Berta is certainly one of those.
I'm overweight and over 40. I usually play nurses and prison guards.
Do you know how many overweight women there are in America? There are a lot. And seeing people like me on the tube makes them feel good.
I wasn't a Deadhead, and I didn't follow a band around, but I definitely was an old hippie.
I'm a compulsive overeater. It's something I need help to work on.
Nobody from Cane Fork ever got on television before.
I went around to see the shows in New York, ending up at the Circle Company one night. I fell in love with the people and started hanging around. It was a family. I liked the way they talked and the quality of work. I learned everything there.
No actor is worth $3 million, not even Marlon. It puts too many other actors out of work.
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