Joonas Suotamo Quotes

Let's just face it: The average girl is not 6-3. I look very average.

I haven't grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn't allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: 'Please no high heels.' It's a little embarrassing.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.'

I'm too tall. I am 6ft 7in, so I've been most people's height at some point in my life, and 6ft 4in is the best. You're tall, but you don't have to bend when you go through a door.

My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won't work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.

I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.

There's been one movie star that would not work with me because of my height. I had so many people who had to stand on boxes when they do scenes with me.

There are Hall of Famers at 5'11'' and 5'9''.

Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.

I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.

It's tricky territory, height and co-stars. The only thing I can say is that it's never been an issue in my life.

If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.

I was always looking at the ground because I was self-conscious about my height. I had big feet, big hands, and all that.

I've always been one of the smallest, if not the smallest guy on the football field.

Since kindergarten, I was the shortest kid in class. They always put me toward the front in school pictures, because you couldn't see me if I was in the back. It was kind of funny.

I was always the tallest kid in my class.

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.