Ken Kesey Quotes

I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

I was really skinny and I had greasy hair and I was knock-kneed. There's something still in me that's like that, and I catch myself, you know when you're walking or something, and you think, 'Oh no, you're still that drippy person.'

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid. I've always been sort of a physical abnormality.

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into.

I don't consider myself sexy. I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.

I was very thin, like a boy, and I was very un-sexy.

People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers.

I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?'

When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

Height has been very, very central to the development of my personality.

I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.

I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me.

I wish I were tall, like my friend Lee Kwang Soo.

I was not a very... um... not a very popular girl. I think a lot of it was, you know, no boo-hoo about it - but I looked pretty strange for the first few years of my life.