Height Discrimination Quotes

I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.

Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

People say I'm wearing heels because I'm short. I wear heels because the women like 'em.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

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.

Some athletes aren't small, they're just short.

In my school days, everyone thought I'm too tall for a Chinese girl.

I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall.

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.'

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

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

I’m not short. I’m…vertically disadvantaged.

I'm too tall. I am 6ft 7in, so I've been most people's height at some point in my life, and 6ft 4in is the best. You're tall, but you don't have to bend when you go through a door.

When you're a teenager, you don't want to look different. So being very tall can set you apart, not being able to see very well can set you apart... and you just want to fit in. We all do.

...while a sane world would not employ 5-foot-tall grandmothers as law enforcement officers, a sane world would also not give full body-cavity searches to 5-foot-tall grandmothers at airports.

I've acted with shorter heroes, and no one has objected.

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

I've got 99 problems, and most of them are height-related.

People tend to assume I was terribly self-conscious about my height. In fact, I've always been perfectly comfortable with the way I am. And if anyone gave me any stick, they soon found I was quite capable of giving it back.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

I can understand why people laugh and make jokes, but I'm comfortable with being this tall. It's not as if I've had a sudden growth spurt. I've always been like this, so I get used to the constant height references.

In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job. I can say, 'Oh, my height,' and that'll make me feel better, but I don't know for sure.