Elizabeth Banks Quotes

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

Sadly, people assume that I am happy because I am so skinny.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

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

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

I'm not thin. I don't starve myself.

I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

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

The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.

I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

I'm so not into being emaciated.