Anna Held Quotes

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do normally," but they're really uncomfortable. You start to realize why women would pass out. We had the real ones, and they were just awful. At one point, I was like, "I think that's my spleen that this is digging into." So, if I had a nightgown, that was always really comfy. I had a few coats that I thought were pretty cool.

With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.

When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.

Corsetry is a body modification.

I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always loved that. I guess I was a glutton for punishment. I think I was born one of those people who loved swords and fought in armor.

I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.

Corsets are always hard to wear.

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.

I love a good corset.

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.

For me, body art is all about expression; it's a lifestyle and can serve as a reminder that when my career is done, I'll have a story to tell on my body. And it will be my story of my life on my body.

I've seen a few lookalikes, and that kind of freaks me out, but then I'm not the first person on the planet to have tattoos, and I'm not the first person to have hair or a tattoo sleeve.

The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.

For girls who want to get their waistline down a little bit and don't have any weights in the house, they can actually use a broom and put it behind their necks, lap over it and twist and squat. I do all of that if I don't go to the gym.

A waist trainer will help you get the figure you want and feel sexier and better about yourself.

With my tattoos, I've got my war side on my left side, being left handed, and a faith side on my right side, right with God.

I don't want to alter anything on my body.

My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.

My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.

When you walk in a saree, you must kick the pleats. It becomes more comfortable that way.

Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.