Carl Hagelin Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Actors are often short. It can be hard to make others look good if you are three heads taller.

I'm someone who has grown physically at a later age, I was always one of the smallest players.

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

What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.

The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it.

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 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.

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.

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

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

I'm really, really short. And when I'm on TV, it looks like I'm tall, but I'm really not. I think I'm like just over 5-foot, or not even. Yeah, I'm really small.

People at school used to assume I was going to be a footballer, and it wasn't until I got to 16, when I was at Southampton, that I had a doubt for the first time in my life. Southampton said I wasn't big enough, but it was just because I hadn't grown. Simple as that.