Lionel Shriver Quotes

Growing up, you see movies, and the big person is always the butt of a joke or the funny best friend, or they lose weight, and that's when they become redeemable.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

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

After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

I don't go around calling myself a fat girl. It doesn't feel fun to me.

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.'

I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

We see these cute, perfect bombshells that make me feel like I'm not good enough, I'm not pretty enough. I don't think I could pull off playing a person like that, and do I want to? I don't know.

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

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