Gwendoline Christie Quotes

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

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.

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

I used to hate being short.

I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my roles, and as soon as I embraced that I am a tall female, I started getting really fantastic roles and really didn't even worry about wearing heels.

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

Everyone always says that guys are intimidated by me, but I seriously doubt it. I mean, I'm five-foot-nothing!

I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

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 taller than every other boy my age. So, whenever there was one boy who was taller than me I was like, 'Yes. He's the one.' Even if he definitely wasn't.

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

Taller people get very competitive. When I meet someone who's close to me or taller, I'm straight up; I don't wanna be smaller than them.

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'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.

I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

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

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.

When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.

I was always the tallest kid in my class.

Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I was very gangly and limby, and would sweep things off the table without realising how big my wingspan was - just out of control. A lot of women write to me and say, 'I'm six foot and exactly the same happens' - that's been lovely therapy.

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.