Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ and Paula are alternatives to what we, as plus-size women in America, have been told is our narrative, which is, you should be hating yourself or hating others for how you look. Donna Lynne Champlin Read Quote
I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, ‘What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?’ And that’s how I picked the songs. Donna Lynne Champlin Read Quote
I don’t usually see my type for on-camera stuff as a series regular. Normally, my type is the janitor, the secretary, the cop, or the nurse. Donna Lynne Champlin Read Quote
It’s so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties. Donna Lynne Champlin Read Quote
One of the most amazing things about ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ is that every song is an original. There are no covers. I think ‘Glee’ had to deal with forcing covers into their plotlines. That can be difficult to pull off. Donna Lynne Champlin Read Quote
When Melissa McCarthy came out with ‘Bridesmaids,’ all of a sudden you saw a plus-sized woman who had three dimensions, was not an appendage, was pivotal to the plot. Donna Lynne Champlin Read Quote
Not a lot of people know it, but I don’t have any qualms about saying it – there’s a lot of mental illness that runs in my family. Donna Lynne Champlin Read Quote
The difficult thing with mental illness is that there’s no one to blame. You can’t blame a person who’s mentally ill, because they didn’t ask for it! There’s no choice to it. Donna Lynne Champlin Read Quote
I think with ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It’s miraculous. You look at ‘1776,’ it’s a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at ‘Hamilton,’ and it’s just the faces of America. Donna Lynne Champlin Read Quote
