Stephen Tobolowsky Quotes

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.

People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'

I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

'Suddenly Susan' is my life.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

I'm going bald. I'm having a major problem with it.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

My whole career, I was pretty much bald. So, people just got to know me as being a bald guy.

I've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?

I'm almost reluctant to say it because it sounds superficial, but when you lose your hair, it just affects the way that you look at yourself in the mirror. You feel less feminine, pretty or desirable, and it's not an easy thing to go through.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

I don't really talk about this because it seems indulgent, but I lost my hair, I'm bald, I had alopecia in my teens. That was back in the late '80s, well before people shaved their heads. So it's probably one of the reasons why I have been obsessed with that age, because it's locked in time where I feel like I had this personal loss that so affected my vanity, and I don't really feel like I handled it well. I'm so much older now, so it's not a big deal, but when I think back at it, I can conjure up how I felt then.

I'm kinda stuck in that awkward in-between stage where my hair is just starting to fall out, but I'm still maintaining my youthful acne.

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

Just when I thought my day couldnt get any worse, I saw the dead guy next to my locker.

Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.

What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.