Shonda Rhimes Quotes

Some people would like me to be round again.

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

Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

I did gain weight, but I don't care.

My whole thing with the whole weight situation is - it is what it is. It's never been my identity.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

I have no issues with my identity.

I figured being fat was my destiny.

You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.

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

I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I like what I see in the mirror. I liked what I saw in the mirror before. It just didn't work in a bikini. And now it does. So I'm excited!