Top 95 Taller Quotes

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.’

As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn’t have any power, really, as a kid.

I know the first seven years of my career I thought I had to be this big tough guy. But in a world where you have guys taller and bigger, that role was already filled.

A man never stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.

Because of the way I am built I photograph taller than I actually am; it’s an optical illusion. The way you’re naturally built is not something you can fake – you either photograph taller or you don’t.

I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won’t work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don’t; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

A trick for looking taller is to wear a top and pants in the same color family – and to hide heels underneath the pants!

With the time, as I was growing up and I got taller and my arms were longer, I developed this aggressive style because I think it was better for me, for my style of game.

I like to wear clothes that look the best on my body, which is why I wear a lot of crop tops and high waisted bottoms – it gives me more shape and makes me look taller.

I wish I was taller or curvier, but I’m happy with the way I look.

I’ve always felt comfortable on the ball, and I don’t know why people are so surprised when you can control it well. It’s not a disability. It’s just that I’m a bit taller than everyone else.

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

Men in high heels? That’s a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

I’m 5 foot 2. I wish I were 5′ 6. Everyone who meets me says, ‘Oh my God. You look so much taller in person.’

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn’t.

Sometimes if you’re wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut.

Valentine’s Day is a perfect time to reject the idea that the ideal man is taller, richer, more knowledgeable, more renowned, or more powerful.

I’m a bit taller too because I’ve got Mum’s legs and Dad was a bit more squat and well-built than me. My brother Andrew is a bit more like Dad.

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.

I used to get bullied for being so small. I was really short until I was 16, then I grew a foot taller.

I was taller than most of the kids. When I started playing basketball, my coach put me at point guard. Europeans do that sometimes.

Certain men get intimidated and insecure around me. They can never get over the fact that I am taller than they are, but it really shouldn’t matter.

People can pick and choose what they want out of it, but I feel like I’m a modern day Renaissance man of anything you could want me to do… except be six inches taller.

I’m a quarter of an inch taller than Jonathan at 6-foot-4 1/2.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they’re doing with the World Trade Center site.

I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that’s difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are – that’s what the rules of the game are for.

I’m was a very shy person, a very shy person and couldn’t go to people in my college. We used to do plays, and I would never get the main female role. I would always get a boys’ role because it was a girls college and I was a little taller than other girls.

A football player is often bigger than a basketball player – more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren’t the largest ones.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I’d like to be taller. I’d like my baby fat to leave.

On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don’t bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It’s not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.

I’m four minutes older. Of all the competitions in our life, I won the first one. Though Drew is a quarter inch taller.

I’m taller than most actresses, so most corsets tend to be too short in the body.

I am 5 feet 1 3/4 inches. Often when I meet people who have only seen me on TV they say, ‘I always thought you were so much taller!’

Sometimes women who are taller aren’t comfortable with it, but I love being tall.

I wouldn’t mind being a bit taller.

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they’d look at how tall I was and say, ‘Well, you’re taller than the lead actor, so there’s no way we can cast you.’

There’s nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He’s the coolest tall person, so I’m trying to be like that.

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

You can get wider. You can’t get taller unless Herman Munster’s in your shoes.

Taller people get very competitive. When I meet someone who’s close to me or taller, I’m straight up; I don’t wanna be smaller than them.

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

I’ve never been particularly happy with what I see in the mirror – I don’t think anybody ever is. And I’d like to be taller, too: I’m 5 ft. 9in.

Maybe because she’s smaller than me she might look taller.

I’m not going to get any taller, so I might as well get as strong and lean as I possibly can be.

The worst part about being so small is that I always have to rely on someone. I can’t go anywhere on my own, so I’m always dependent. I can’t run or walk too fast. If I was taller for a day, I’d just go off on my own independently.

Actors are often short. It can be hard to make others look good if you are three heads taller.

I’d like to be two inches taller, but it just ain’t happening.

I think I’m starting to be able to stand a little taller. I feel like I paid my dues and I feel like I deserve to be where I am. I feel like I’ve worked really hard.

I feel like my game has always been compressed and lowered because I’m taller, more passionate.

A lot of my teammates in the NBA call me Little Patty anyway as they are about two feet taller than me.

Concealers are like undergarments. They make you feel taller and thinner.

As a teenager I was really self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone else. And in Australia there weren’t many black girls around – there definitely weren’t any dark girls on TV – so I didn’t really have anyone to look up to.

A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers.

Elle Fanning is the sweetest, most adorable thing ever. Although maybe I can’t say she’s adorable, because she’s way taller than me.

Every teacher in elementary school loved me because I was always goofing around. I was taller than most of the guys and girls, and fattest, too.

People always think I’m taller than I am – not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It’s all relatively streamlined.

I have always been an obsessive reader – I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

It’s a real man who can go out with a woman who’s taller than he is. That’s an alpha male right there.

They say when you break your leg, you get a little taller and a little faster, and I got both, I think.

I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

I had spinal surgery to correct scoliosis when I was 16 years old. The only thing that scared me about the procedure was that it would make me two inches taller. At the time, I had a crush on a boy who was about my height – and I was worried that if I were taller than him, it would never happen!