Kate DiCamillo Quotes

I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk; I think 4'10" was the cutoff.

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

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.

With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

I thought I was going to the NBA, but God knows, I'm not tall enough. I don't know what I was thinking.

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'm only 5 ft. 7 in. tall, and for modelling, that's small, so I wasn't getting signed, but I kept on pushing.

With my height, I probably wouldn't be able to make money playing pingpong, but I would just have fun with it. The table is too low for me.

Height doesn't matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Brees, Russell Wilson: they've proven that it doesn't matter.

I can't really say my height has hindered me in the theater, though it really has hindered me in TV. It's just something you have to embrace, your height.

You can get wider. You can't get taller unless Herman Munster's in your shoes.

Standing out for being short is not actually a good thing as a model and it hasn't been a help.

I knew my chances of playing beyond college were extremely slim. You just don't see too many 5-foot-10 quarterbacks out there.

You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

Ballet is a finite art - your body won't let you do it forever, so I wanted to do it while I could.

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.

I started out like any other model - I didn't use my name as leverage. I went out with a portfolio and pounded the pavement and it was surprising how many people wouldn't see me because I was too short.

I am too fat and tall to be a jockey. This is not self-deprecation - I realise that I am neither too fat nor too tall - but I am too fat and too tall to be a jockey.

I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.

Being a 6-foot-tall tennis player is not great for a girl's social life.

I did ballet from the age of five, but what I loved was my gymnastics. I kept the ballet going because of the gymnastics, then found I was going to be too tall.

'House of Cards' was amazing to work on. I couldn't believe I landed there.

It's just as well I can sing as I couldn't do a factory job with all these physical limitations.

I was 4'11'' in the 9th grade. I was a little guy... I think I had that little man complex.