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My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.

Growing up, it was kind of a struggle being small, since everyone would make fun of you - except for when it came to hide and seek: that's the only advantage I ever had!

In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.