I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn’t struggled. I couldn’t suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.
I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her – good for her that she doesn’t care. But she’s just as good, whether she’s pretty or not.
I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.
If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
In kickboxing, if I walked around at 185 pounds, I fought at 185 pounds.
Julius Peppers is probably 6’7 and 300 pounds. The great players spend all year round training for 16 games. It isn’t fun being on the receiving end.
I had ballooned out to close to 400 pounds at one point. And in the ’80s, we were just beginning to get on video and disco. So therefore, I did not fit in, and my record company let me go because they said, ‘Look, you’re just not marketable enough with the weight problem.’
Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.
Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago – with virtually no complaints made?
I can fight at both 135 pounds and 140. I want to lose both my titles in the ring.
When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.
Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.
If I want to shave my head tomorrow and gain 50 pounds, or grow my hair long and lose 50 pounds, I have the freedom to do that. People will get used to it.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I felt like the day I turned 40, I could no longer read the dinner menu without glasses, my knees started to betray me, and I can gain 10 pounds just by driving past a McDonalds!
I wrestled at 165 pounds in college. I would actually cut from 205 pounds down to 165, and it wasn’t really a big deal for me. With me wrestling all of the time, my body got used to it.
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, ’20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.’
I’ll go to 185 pounds; who cares? Just give me fights.
Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I’m mad, I weigh a ton.
I eat really well, I don’t go over 165 pounds anymore because I get fat.
I can easily cut 10 to 15 pounds without feeling like I’m killing myself.
As a player, I was a pantomime villain and I had my limitations. But I was also good enough to captain four Premier League clubs, win 39 caps for my country and be transferred for fees running into millions of pounds.
I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
You know when you’ve hit a good shot. I use a bat that weighs two pounds and nine ounces, and it makes a reassuringly solid sound when I connect properly. The ball pings off the middle.
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