Estelle Getty Quotes

I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.

Height has been very, very central to the development of my personality.

I've been many people. I've been the skinny girl. I've been the fat girl. Because I've become a character actress, I sort of fell victim to 'Well, I don't have to look good anymore.'

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

I used to be insecure about my butt, but I no longer think of clothes as something to make me look skinnier.

I do feel pressure to look good. But that's just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can't pose. It's such a struggle.

I think, even before social media, it was really hard to not look at other classmates and say, 'Well I wish I looked like her.' Or even to look at celebrities and wish that 'I looked like them.'

Growing up, I'd always been told that my biggest weakness was my body and how that was probably going to hold me back from accomplishing my dreams.

I know I was not the hottest chick at school!

I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?

I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.

I think, on a frame like mine, if I lose a few pounds, it makes a big difference. I hated every bit of attention on my weight and size. Even now, I can't put into words what exactly happened.