Margaret Cho Quotes

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

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.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

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

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

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.

In this industry, it's sad that a superficial thing like weight loss can actually define your career, but if that is the case, so be it.

What do they want me to do, get lipo? I'm just big boned. There's nothing I can do.

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

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

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.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.