Tim Minchin Quotes

My family, doctors, and society at large were constantly telling me that I was too heavy, that I needed to exercise more, that I should be smaller.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

My weight is this permanent topic that just doesn't fade away. Most days, I am fine with people talking about it. That doesn't bother me as much as how people use the fact to promote their own ventures.

I was pretty self-conscious about my body because everybody kept going on like, "Oh, she's so curvy!" and "She's a plus-size model!" and this and that. It's all people would talk about - how I'm not very skinny. For a while, it made me pretty upset and I got a bit obsessive about it. I did a bunch of dieting and exercising and everything. I was losing weight, but I was still much bigger than everybody else. I didn't really see the point of making myself crazy anymore, so I kind of toned it down a little bit.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

The truth is, I like my body more when it's thinner. I have a range of jeans, and I'm happier in the smaller ones. But I don't have the same drive to get into those jeans. I'm not going to change my day to get there, whereas I used to.

I've long struggled with my body image and have worked hard to achieve a healthy weight.

Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model.

I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.

Oh my God, I'm not anorexic. I acknowledge that I look thin in photos. I get it.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

I'm not thin. I don't starve myself.

I hated to see tabloids with my pictures where I looked so plump. I visited so many doctors, clinics, hit the gym, hired an expensive trainer but nothing worked. I went into an acute depression. Its then that somebody advised me to take up Yoga.

I've been fat my whole life and pretended I don't mind. But I do mind. It's really stupid that I've gone on being greedy and fat.

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

My weight fluctuates, just like any other person's does, and there will always be critics.

I definitely feel the pressure to lose weight and be smaller than I am.

I never weigh myself.

By Hollywood standards I'm still fat: until you are zero, you are big. I do get cold a lot now. I used to have a lot of layers - now I got to get a fur coat.

Big can be beautiful - just not to me. I find you disgusting; freshmen 15 is not a life sentence.

I think, on a frame like mine, if I lose a few pounds, it makes a big difference. I hated every bit of attention on my weight and size. Even now, I can't put into words what exactly happened.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

I figured being fat was my destiny.