Mara Wilson Quotes

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen when I left home and gained weight for the first time and was told by a slightly older boy, out of the blue, that I was "too plump." The shock of that lasted a good long time.

How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

I’m constantly criticised for being too skinny. I’m trying to gain weight but my body won’t let it happen. What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat, it’s not a nice feeling.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.

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

If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.

So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were ones usually reserved for three-eyed monsters, half-man half-woman reptiles, creatures with hideous rolls of skin that sweated profusely and jiggled when they walked. That last one really was me.

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

Why the heck do we allow the media to ever tell us someone is gross? It makes me so mad. 99% of the world has flaws.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

Sometimes when I pose for pictures, people say it's impossible that I have a flat stomach without working out like crazy and having a personal trainer, and sometimes they get mad at me, and I find that hard because I think there's a lot of women who have the same thing happening to them because they lived a healthy, active lifestyle.

Women are 'expected' to have skinny waists yet still be voluptuous. People surrounding us tell us we need to eat but then look at us in disgust if we cross the invisible line of overeating.

I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.

I have heard every negative thing under the sun about my body.

I am shocked as to how much importance my weight garners in the world we live in. I don't know why it is so important, to be honest.

There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.