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" I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys - they were surfers. They didn't like me, never talked to me. And if they didn't like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something. "

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" The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.' "

Stephen Furst

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" When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes. "

" When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress. "

" I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine. "

" The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did. "

" Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health. "

" When I auditioned for 'Animal House,' I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater in Virginia. "

" I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist. "

" You can eat a lot more vegetables than you can cotton candy. Bring on the veggies. Stay away from the fluffy carbs. "

" I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them. "

" I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die. "

" The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time. "

" I'll make a diet cheesecake, but I'll put it in a Sara Lee box. Or I'll have a huge bowl of pasta, but it's actually just a cup of pasta - the rest is vegetables. It makes me feel less deprived. "

" I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics. "

" I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job. "

" I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself. "

Stephen Furst

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" I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were ones usually reserved for three-eyed monsters, half-man half-woman reptiles, creatures with hideous rolls of skin that sweated profusely and jiggled when they walked. That last one really was me. "

" The magic is you can change more things than you could ever dream of. "

" I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times. "

" One of the key things I did to stay on my diet is I never allowed myself to get hungry. As soon as I got hungry, I'd eat healthy foods. "