Richard Griffiths Quotes

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

Everybody is getting a little bigger nowadays.

Sitting on that couch eating and gaining 20 pounds isn't exactly fun - there's only so much you can do.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.

When my face starts to feel chubby, I know there is an issue with my weight.

I was really fat in school.

My body structure ensures that if I do not watch what I eat, my weight tends to spiral crazily out of control.

I'm 240, and I'm not fat.

Definitely was eating bad after surgery. I was overweight by, like, 20, 30 pounds.

I'm well aware of the health dangers of an expanding waistline and belly fat: diabetes, heart disease, stroke, even cancer.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'

We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!

I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

I grew six inches in a year.

I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty.