America Ferrera Quotes

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

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

I'd want to have Gisele Bundchen's body. Even though she's tall and skinny, she does have curves... and I think that's hot. Halle Berry also is kind of amazing.

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

'Skinny' is only one body type.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

I'd like to be curvier.

I've always been full-figured in a not-boyish way.

If actors can show their abs, why can't women show their bikini bods?

When I modeled, my name always came with a preface: 'the voluptuous Sophie Dahl.' I was the anti-waif, as round as a Rubens.

The people I look up to most are actresses such as Kate Winslet and Amy Schumer, who have never been size zero and are judged on their bodies of work, not their bodies.

People don't just want to be thin. They want to be curvy.

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.