Adnan Sami Quotes

My weight fluctuates, just like any other person's does, and there will always be critics.

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.

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

My weight is something that people seem to talk about a lot.

I often get references to 'slight' or whatever, and my weight's been a thing for me my whole life. I have to really, really work. I train six times a week to just be normal and not be fat.

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

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

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.

Sure, I'm sensitive about my weight. I don't do fat jokes.

By Hollywood standards I'm still fat: until you are zero, you are big. I do get cold a lot now. I used to have a lot of layers - now I got to get a fur coat.

My family, doctors, and society at large were constantly telling me that I was too heavy, that I needed to exercise more, that I should be smaller.

There have been so many discussions about my weight: How is she going to lose weight? Is she going to lose weight? When is she going to lose weight? It's kind of it's funny.

What do they want me to do, get lipo? I'm just big boned. There's nothing I can do.

I was pretty self-conscious about my body because everybody kept going on like, "Oh, she's so curvy!" and "She's a plus-size model!" and this and that. It's all people would talk about - how I'm not very skinny. For a while, it made me pretty upset and I got a bit obsessive about it. I did a bunch of dieting and exercising and everything. I was losing weight, but I was still much bigger than everybody else. I didn't really see the point of making myself crazy anymore, so I kind of toned it down a little bit.

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody... to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

I figured being fat was my destiny.

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.

I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.

I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.