I am increasingly of the mind that all fat is good.
When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I’ve lost weight, they say I died.
To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it’s the biggest thrill of your life.
With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That’s huge! That’s Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
At my age, you can go either fat or gaunt. I’ve gone gaunt.
Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It’s hard to deny the flavor quotient there.
I need to be fit and strong, and I don’t want to carry any excess fat.
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.
Fat is fat. This goes back to the word ‘plus.’ We describe things. We are humans, and we need to describe things.
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke ‘fat cats’ until they purr with pleasure. I’m completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
‘Fat’ was a terrible, terrible word for me growing up. When I was able to reclaim it and call myself fat and identify with it, that was the best moment ever. That was the moment I really started to feel free.
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
My parents’ generation’s benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he’d probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.
For a long time I didn’t want to date or get naked with ‘anyone – I was so fat. But I changed every part of my life to lose weight and have a better life.
I was a fat kid who didn’t discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we’re supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I’d rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there’s a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.
I developed a nutty attitude where I’d think, If some guy really loves me he doesn’t care if I’m fat. I’d come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.
People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they’re in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.
I don’t want to lose weight to live long or be healthy. I just want to be able to make fun of fat people again and know for sure that they’re fatter than me.
If you can afford to eat yourself fat, you can afford to pay to go to WeightWatchers if you think that is the answer.
I was just so sick. I thought that orange juice was going to make me fat.
Usually, two or three hours after getting offstage, I’ll begin the eating process: usually carbohydrates, protein, and fat.
A boxer’s diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.
Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.
I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys and Run DMC and a lot of those early records, those Rubin-era records. Those were always snare- and stab-heavy records.
Nobody wants a fat lead singer.
Let’s say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he’s fat or anything.
Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
My fat never made me less money.
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.
I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.
I’d just like to see a role for women where someone who isn’t traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. ‘Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?’
We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I’m not going to say, ‘This girl is fat; she can’t work in an office.’
I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren’t. And it’s just not – there is no equality there.
I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don’t eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
I have never felt ‘fat;’ I just didn’t realise how unhealthy I was until I look back at pictures. In the moment, I felt so beautiful, and I remember walking down red carpets with my make-up done in a little sparkly dress, and I thought I was so cute.
So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
For me, playing a chubby or fat superhero was so special because I would go and watch these movies with my friends and would never see anyone like me. I am excited to be that for other kids who look like me.
I won’t cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by deep fat, and I don’t think that’s changed. Oven chips are good enough for my grandchildren, and they’re chuffed with that.
You’re never too fat for a new purse.
In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.
There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.
I’d kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
I wouldn’t give Charles Barkley an apology at gunpoint. He can never expect an apology from me… If anything, he owes me an apology for coming to play with his sorry, fat butt.
Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, ‘Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.’ There’s huge continuing pressure on the food companies.
The flesh of king salmon, which varies in color from white to pink to red, has a high fat content, making it perfect for grilling.
People in this country haven’t stopped hating fat people, but they’ve become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they’re done towards yourself.
I love watching a single pork chop seasoned with garlic and shallots cook and see the fat bubble around it.
Today, ‘fat’ has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
It’s refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat.
Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we’ve been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on ‘perfect’ bodies.
My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorites are chicken, rice, assorted veggies, egg white omelets, turkey sandwiches and protein shakes.
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
I used to watch Oprah Winfrey, and whenever she used to lose weight, I used to be like, ‘How’s she losing it? What is she doing?’ But it’s all about education and knowledge, feeding yourself and knowing that too much carbs is what gets us fat.
