Heightism Quotes

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 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.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

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

I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.

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.'

One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it.

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

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

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

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.

In England, I'm just another tall guy!

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad.

Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I'm a geek, so I love the fact Peter Parker is into science. And I gravitate towards short guys. I'm 5' 9" now, but in junior high, I got picked on because I was 4' 8".

Heightism is the last unchecked prejudice.

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.'

All of my life, I've been told no. That I was too poor, too short, too black. I enjoy it when people underestimate me.

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.