You can’t be six feet tall and invisible.
I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall.
When I was younger, I played football and table tennis for local teams. I also played mini-rugby at primary school – I was tall for my age – and Preston Grasshoppers wanted me, but I wasn’t that interested in rugby. It was always going to be cricket for me.
I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn’t have tons of money, I wasn’t conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.
I weighed 25 stone, and I didn’t stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn’t sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
People who buy your product or use your service don’t care how tall or short you are, or what gender you are, or your age. It is irrelevant. That is not the basis on which your product is judged.
I’m really not an avowed heterosexual. I’m no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
In Hollywood if you’re good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you’re short and fat, it’s a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
We are all built differently. Some guys are more powerful. Some guys are very tall. I’m not very tall, so I rely on quickness.
I am too fat and tall to be a jockey. This is not self-deprecation – I realise that I am neither too fat nor too tall – but I am too fat and too tall to be a jockey.
I got really tall really quickly. I grew nine inches in one summer, and I was sort of like a Great Dane puppy, flopping around all over the place.
I’m elected. I don’t report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I’d quit tomorrow. I’m not tall, dark and handsome. They don’t vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can’t get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.
I’m not for every woman, you know. Because a lot of women – I mean, obviously, your first thing is, ‘What do you want your guy to look like?’ And I’m not the tall, dark, handsome guy.
Working hard – that’s South Sudan. We’re tall, dark skinned, beautiful – I’m always proud of that.
We made this mountain with ‘Vulgar Display Of Power,’ and that was a pretty damn tall mountain to climb.
I did ballet from the age of five, but what I loved was my gymnastics. I kept the ballet going because of the gymnastics, then found I was going to be too tall.
I was told I was too dark, too tall, too broad. I didn’t fit into that girl next door look.
I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn’t like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.
I was always tall, but I had a real growth spurt between 12 and 14.
I had actually finished the manuscript of ‘The Wild Trees’ and turned it in to Random House when all of a sudden word came. Michael Taylor and his colleague, Chris Atkins, another explorer, have just knocked one out of the park. They found the world’s tallest tree. The tree is named Hyperion, 379.1 feet tall.
Usually, I get hired because I’m tall.
I think most of the people like the kind of player like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. They’re pretty tall, and they can do everything.
I’m almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.
But yeah, a lot of people compare me to Magic. The physical appearance, the tall point guard, the ability to pass the ball. But comparisons are one thing, it’s up to me to go out and play my game, get those wins, those championships, that’s the only way those comparisons can get closer, but he’s a legend.
I live in the middle of nowhere. I’m a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto, huge city, massive buildings just stretching so tall.
I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.
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.’
Of course, there are benefits to having prosthetics. I can make myself as tall as I want. I can wear flip-flops in the snow if I wanted to. There’s benefits.
I don’t think I’m leading lady material, and I was always the wrong shape. I was never tall enough. But it was more lack of confidence. I shunned doing straight parts. I didn’t think I was a good enough actress, so I thought I might as well do something they were supposed to laugh at.
I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
There is nobody that’s ever going to fill Ted Kennedy’s shoes, and that’s a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.
Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid. I’ve always been sort of a physical abnormality.
He’s too short, he’s too… tall, he’s… just not going to work.
Putting on shoes with my prosthetic legs is still hard for me, but at the end of the day, I’m just putting on really tall shoes.
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.
When I was younger, I wanted to be tall and skinny. And because I wasn’t, I was disappointed. The great thing about getting older is that I’ve come to accept my shape – and embrace it.
To some, I’m too curvy. To others, I’m too tall, too busty, too loud, and, now, too small – too much, but at the same time not enough.
Tall men come down to my height when I hit ’em in the body.
Everyone in my family was pretty tall, so we always thought I would get bigger.
When you’re seven feet tall on set, people give you respect.
Because I’m so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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.
I’m pretty tall, and I’m always dressed in black.
Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees.
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them.
People would make fun of me because they were acting like I can’t dribble. But, in my head, I was always a guard… I was like, ‘Yo, I’m tall, but I don’t care. I’m not no big man.’
Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren’t naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in… To be a size zero or a two when you’re tall is incredible to me.
My father’s like – it’s as if he was transparent. He’s a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that’s reflected in their work.
In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!
I’m 5ft 7in tall and a size six to eight on top and eight to ten on the bottom. Consequently, I get a lot of my clothes altered to fit, as I am always between sizes.
It’s good in tennis that you don’t have to be big or a tall guy to be good. Otherwise I had no chance to get in the top 20.
It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
People ordinarily don’t think of their orchestras as important as we’d like them to be. People don’t care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.
That’s what he was saying, the civil rights movement – judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It’s by my character.
