Robert Parish Quotes

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

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 used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you - you're never not in the spotlight.

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.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.

I've got 99 problems, and most of them are height-related.

I'm 5ft 1in and despise being small. People think I'm cute and cuddly, and I'm not.

It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn't help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful - I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.

I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

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

Let's just face it: The average girl is not 6-3. I look very average.

I used to hate being short.

I haven't grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn't allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: 'Please no high heels.' It's a little embarrassing.

There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class.

As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.

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.'

I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!

At school I was very shy and coincidentally inherited the title 'little miss worry guts,' and that was just among the staff. I learned early on that I could make people laugh, and as my small neat body betrayed me by growing to dizzying heights, I used it as a tool that translated into complete slap-stick comedy.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

I'm in the eighth grade and am not the height of the rest of my class. But I don't worry about that. I'm just me!