Quote #42

I stood in front of a hundred and one critics at a critic's convention, ... and a critic asked me, 'Miss Cho, isn't it true that your management asked you to lose weight to play the part of yourself in your own TV show?' Gail [the producer] grabbed the mike from me and said, 'There is no truth in that whatsoever.' I... was so... hungry.

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