Freema Agyeman Quotes

I have always been short, and most people want to be taller. That's sort of a thing, but I love being short.

I think when you're a tall girl, you feel a little bit like an outcast. You have to go to the back of the photo. You're taller than all the boys. I know I felt more like an outsider. And then as I got older, I just got used to it. I got like, 'I don't date under 6 feet.' That's my policy.

I am proud of my height.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

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

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.

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

I've got 99 problems, and most of them are height-related.

I used to hate being short.

I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my roles, and as soon as I embraced that I am a tall female, I started getting really fantastic roles and really didn't even worry about wearing heels.

People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.

I was always the tallest kid in my class.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

I have been stared at my whole life because of my height.

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 have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.

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.

Some athletes aren't small, they're just short.

I've always been the tallest; I didn't shoot up. That's who I am.

In the early stages, when I realized I was going to be probably the shortest player on the teams I was on, it was hard. I felt like girls were getting recruited over me strictly because of their height, and it made me self-conscious.

I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

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.'