Martin Firrell Quotes

Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

I'm not too hard on myself about dieting and exercise. Some stars are a little too bony for me. What happened to the booty?

Whenever there's a red carpet event coming up my trainer in LA that I see, I always come to her like three days before and go, 'Can you make me really thin in three days?' She's always like, 'If you come to me consistently all throughout the year, then yes I can. When you come to me with three days and ask to lose 10 pounds it's just not going to happen.' I'm like, 'Do your best. Please. Make me skinny.'

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

She's a twosome, she's a foursome, if she'd lose some, I would like her more some.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

I would never become a size zero. I work out because I want to look good naked, simple as that.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.

I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

I will say I was a lot bigger as Superman. A lot bigger. I'm not saying how much. It's modesty about the weight - I've always been worried about my weight - but I also don't want to invite that debate: 'Henry weighs this, so he's the perfect Superman.' Or, 'Henry doesn't weigh this, and therefore he's not believable in the role.'

I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.

I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.