Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

Believe it or not, I don't wake up looking like a supermodel.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

I finally have the body I want. It’s easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.

Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.

Obviously, when I came to do the movie I knew that I was going to have to take my clothes off so I might have worked a little bit harder to keep myself fit. But I think that's the irony of it - you see all these fit and healthy people, and I'm not making any comments on it, but everybody deep down is a f**k up somewhere.

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight Greek eyebrows. They start at the hairline at my temple and, left unchecked, will grow straight across my face and onto yours.

My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

I might do a fitness video. Actually, more of a fatness video.

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23.