I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
As a kid who grew up chubby, I just marveled at the fact that I could be thin.
The thought that came to my mind when I was called for Naagin’ was, Oh my god!’ The next one was, I have to become thin now to look like a nice, hot naagin.’ I was like, Jasmin now you have to stop eating butter chicken and pizzas!’
What I want to do is to create a conversation piece and something people remember. I want to make it repetitive enough but not use what I call ‘thin thinking’ – the kind of thing anyone can do. A hook tells me what you are talking about and it doesn’t have to be a lot of words.
I’ve always felt like an outsider as a woman. I’ve never really felt wholly comfortable in a women’s world or woman’s things. I’ve never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I’ve seen on TV has never felt like mine.
The thinnest I’ve ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn’t work when I’m that thin, so I can’t do my job. That’s why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
I know the pain of somebody who’s too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.
I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark – but at some point, they’re going to need the other. So I’d get really good at being the other.
It’s a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn’t fit into this very thin slice of what’s desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they’re doing.
I hate weedy thin delicate women’s watches, gets on my nerves, I like big men’s watches.
I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.
Some are short, others are tall, others are thin, others are stocky. But we are all human beings. Can we not live together and happily within one border?
When I first came to college, it was a time that I was trying to figure out, ‘Who am I? What makes me special?’ and I started to find most of my value in the fact that I was thin.
It’s true that in tennis sometimes the margins are very thin.
I’ve realized that I’m more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It’s about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
When making any pureed soup, don’t blend all the liquids and solids together at once. Hold back some liquid at first and use it to thin the soup as needed. You can always add more liquid, but there’s not much you can do to fix a too-thin soup.
I’m careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage.
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
I think clothes hang beautifully on thin women.
I began working as a model because I was born thin. I didn’t become thin to be a model.
The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.
In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
My fans are going to support me through thick and thin; 100 per cent, they’ll always support me.
I don’t know if I’m quite grizzly enough. My facial hair is still very thin and patchy. I feel someone who plays Wolverine potentially needs testosterone in abundance.
It really is ironic that the saddest I’d ever been was when I had ‘achieved’ all the things I had wanted. I was so disgustingly thin, but I was so unhappy.
What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats… or skinny.
It’s hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It’s different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it’s interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.
There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I’ve to make sure I don’t cross over into mimicry.
I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It’s very thin, it’s made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better.
My mom is my rock, and I’m blessed to have her as my mother. I can talk to her whenever I need to or want to. She supports me through thick and thin, and I’ll always be there for her.
Up until the time I was cast in ‘Star Trek,’ the roles were pretty shallow – thin, stereotyped, one-dimensional roles. I knew this character was a breakthrough role, certainly for me as an individual actor but also for the image of an Asian character: no accent, a member of the elite leadership team.
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden’s henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
People don’t just want to be thin. They want to be curvy.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.
That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.
When you go further and further into starvation you chose yourself, your mind becomes totally obsessed with not eating. It’s like a religion where everything is sinful, and there is a heaven at the end where you are thin and don’t need energy anymore.
I feel like it’s always about how this girl stays thin, or what one girl is doing to another, and it shouldn’t be that way.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
There’s a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.
I remember the first time I played on a synthetic turf field. I thought, ‘Wow, this is amazing. What is this stuff?’ It seemed so much better than that concrete-like Astro Turf that was essentially just a green, thin carpet over hard ground.
I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.
Sure, investors do tend to overreact, but they are investing real money based on doubtful information. Complacency or a wrong move sees their money literally vanish into thin air.
Sometimes you go into a waiting room, and the audition room is right there, and the walls are extremely thin. And you can hear every breath that they’re saying. And you’re used to that. So you go in, and you’re like, ‘Oh, whatever.’
Within the modeling industry, there’s no doubt that there are some girls out there that are too thin. But there are also girls who are genetically slim and can eat like a horse.
If you’re in the public eye, you’re constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It’s just a shame those are the reactions people have.
I grew up in a small industrial suburb of Haifa in Israel. As far back as I remember, I was interested in big questions. Who are we? What are we doing here? But the chances to discuss philosophy were quite thin on the ground.
I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else’s was – my hair was very thin, so I couldn’t do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.
I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I’m trying to create, I’m trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.
Truthfully, I’ve never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I’ll look at photos and be like, ‘Oh, that’s not a good look.’ But generally speaking, I’m not too thin.
As an actor, whether you look good or you don’t, it’s still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can’t shave it off.
Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.
I just try to keep healthy more so than trying to be thin.
