Alison McGhee Quotes

I used to hate being short.

I have always been short, and most people want to be taller. That's sort of a thing, but I love being short.

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'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.'

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

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.

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've always wanted to look different. I always think I've got this terrible figure. I'd like to be 3 inches taller.

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.

Certain men get intimidated and insecure around me. They can never get over the fact that I am taller than they are, but it really shouldn't matter.

I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.

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 was never the best-looking guy; I was never the Tom Cruise-looking guy.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

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.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.