Wesley Snipes Quotes

My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn't help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful - I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

I used to hate being short.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

It's tricky territory, height and co-stars. The only thing I can say is that it's never been an issue in my life.

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

I've got 99 problems, and most of them are height-related.

I'm 5ft 1in and despise being small. People think I'm cute and cuddly, and I'm not.

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?

I always wanted to be less tall. When I was at school I was the same height as all of my girlfriends and then suddenly I was turning 12 and almost overnight I got really tall.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Most of the men that sue in Hollywood are all about 5' 2'. They wake up every day, know they're tiny and feel very angry about it, so they go out and sue people.

I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it.

I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.