Top 235 Skinny Quotes

The one thing about doing all those movies and all that television is I know what I’m doing. And I can do what Sean Connery can do. I can do what Clint can do. People even say I look a little like Clint. But that’s just because I’m skinny and tall and old. With a receding hairline.

At 16, I would wear clothes that hid my body; now I’ve found clothes that fit me rather than cover me. I’m not skinny, but I’m healthy, and you have to embrace what you’ve been given.

I was a skinny 17-year-old.

Skinny Cow ice cream and candy – like dancing – brings a little bit of fun to your day.

I was the first to wear colored skinny jeans.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it’s not a nice feeling.

I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs… I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

I feel sorry… for people who’ve had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren’t their idea of beautiful and therefore aren’t their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

There’s lots said about me. I have teeth that are way too big for my face or that I am too skinny for my own good… And I can safely say that I have three left feet. But there’s nothing I can do about it. That’s the way I look, and that’s the way I was born.

It still amazes me, when I go out and fly the T-38, and I’m looking at those little, short, skinny little wings, and that thing’s flying. It’s just amazing to me, even now.

I love things that are easy to throw on, that I don’t have to think about. Like skinny jeans and a T-shirt is easy for me.

I think I wanted to be a punk-rocker before I wanted to be anything else. I remember wanting a mohawk, and I wanted to cut the sleeves off of my jean jacket because I used to want to be Dirty Dan from Sha-Na-Na. This is before hip-hop was even around. I had the skinny piano tie. I had it, man.

The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely – nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.

I am always plagued with ‘I’m not skinny enough, I’m not in shape.’ I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I’m okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?

I’ve never said I’m perfect, and I’ve never said I’m a skinny girl.

All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

I was just a scrawny, skinny kid just trying to survive like any other boy in high school.

I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing ‘Carmen,’ and I’m considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women.

Evening, I’ve just got myself some really nice black suede boots and big black leather Acne jacket. So oversized jacket, skinny jeans, and boots is always a get up and go evening outfit. Just black is always good. You can’t go wrong.

We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal – fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion – that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?

I know about the sweet home. I went to school with ’em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.

I want to bulk up. I’m a skinny guy.

I didn’t look like Rihanna. I was a bit chubby. I had puppy fat. I had a moustache. I didn’t want to have lips; I didn’t want a bum. I grew out of it, but I feel like everyone went through that phase of wanting to be skinny.

For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves – like, wide scarves with fringe – and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long – almost like a tie.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weight. The J-Lo booty wasn’t popular then, and I wanted to be the perfect Hollywood girl – tall, blonde and skinny. I couldn’t do the ‘tall’ because I was 5’2, and I couldn’t do the skinny, either.

Whether somebody think badly of me, whether somebody don’t feel that I should be doing this or I should be doing that way, I don’t really care. Whether they think that my fatigue is being laid, legs are skinny, I don’t care.

Let’s face it, it’s a skinny world out there.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It’s a constant, in our society.

To me, I’ll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn’t always easy. And that’s what drives me.

I don’t get fat, I get skinny.

I’m always like ‘I’m too skinny, I can’t gain weight, even when I try.’ I’d like to try to not let that get to me.

Even now I don’t consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I’ve really learned to love myself.

I don’t think I could ever go skinny. I just don’t think, physiologically, that is going to happen. I do eat healthily for a week, and then I go, ‘Nah, they have these beautiful ice-cream sandwiches.’ I don’t think my emotional eating is ever going to change.

I was in Starbucks and the person in front of me said: ‘Can I have a tall, skinny, black Americano please?’ I said: ‘Are you ordering coffee or voting in the U.S. elections?’

A lot of people tell me now I’m their inspiration. They say, ‘I don’t play baseball,’ and then they mention whatever – engineer, doctor, college student, high school student – but they’re hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.

We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

I never thought I’d make the pages of ‘Sports Illustrated’, because I’ve always been skinny.

A lot of people think that being skinny is the happy ending, and it’s not. Being happy is the happy ending.

I’ve had designers say to my face, ‘Oh, I want to dress you now that you’re skinny.’ And that’s really rude.

‘Skinny’ is only one body type.

I’m an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I’ve learned that if you’re too skinny, they’ll say something about it. If you’re not skinny enough, they’ll say something about it. I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.

Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I’ve been labeled – short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy – turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn’t become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.

I didn’t want to get skinny, just strong.

I aspire to be an icon in a womanly, healthy way. I don’t want to be some skinny, gaunt model nobody can relate to.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That’s so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

All my brothers were skinny with a gut. Bone-thin with a bit of a pooch. That’s what I fight against.

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

I’m very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they’re legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that.