Toyah Willcox Quotes

No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.

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.

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

I've never been particularly happy with what I see in the mirror - I don't think anybody ever is. And I'd like to be taller, too: I'm 5 ft. 9in.

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

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 was always looking at the ground because I was self-conscious about my height. I had big feet, big hands, and all that.

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.

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

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

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

I had a fear of being too tall because my dad is very tall, and both my sisters are very tall. And they're drop-dead gorgeous, but I just didn't know if I, as Storm, wanted to be 6 feet tall, 'cause I feel like that's pretty tall.

I had spinal surgery to correct scoliosis when I was 16 years old. The only thing that scared me about the procedure was that it would make me two inches taller. At the time, I had a crush on a boy who was about my height - and I was worried that if I were taller than him, it would never happen!

People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.

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 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.'

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.'

The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it.

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 hate talking about my height, because I don't feel like a tall person... When I see a tall woman, I'm always slightly like, 'Whoa.' It looks weird, but that could be because of my complex about it, my worry over whether it's womanly to be that tall.

I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won't work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.