Anita Ekberg Quotes

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

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.

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.

I want to get more and more sophisticated. I'm ready to go from being a kid to being a king.

I'm kind of fat.

Even when I was little, I was big.

I'm looking forward to getting fat and old.

All of us grow.

When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit.

Growth necessitates change and change facilitates growth.

Development is the only hard truth.

I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better.

I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence.

I think this country is growing up a little bit.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow - then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

My size wasn't something that I'd ever spent a huge amount of time thinking about - I guess at the age of 17 or 18 you don't.

I want to keep growing in every area.

I never used to like how big my hands were because I hadn't grown into them yet.

Every chapter in life helps you move forward.

I get better and better every day, but there is still a lot to learn.

I have plenty of opportunities to get better and continue to grow as a quarterback.