Carmen Yulín Cruz Quotes

With my height, I probably wouldn't be able to make money playing pingpong, but I would just have fun with it. The table is too low for me.

I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.

I can't really say my height has hindered me in the theater, though it really has hindered me in TV. It's just something you have to embrace, your height.

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.

Standing out for being short is not actually a good thing as a model and it hasn't been a help.

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.

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!'

I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.

Funnily enough, I never thought of myself as being short. Being an actor has made me much more conscious of it than I would have been otherwise.

I don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

I always wanted to be a character when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters, and I wasn't tall enough for others.

I'm really, really short. And when I'm on TV, it looks like I'm tall, but I'm really not. I think I'm like just over 5-foot, or not even. Yeah, I'm really small.

I was small, but I was also slow.

I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really faze me all that much.

There's been one movie star that would not work with me because of my height. I had so many people who had to stand on boxes when they do scenes with me.

I started out like any other model - I didn't use my name as leverage. I went out with a portfolio and pounded the pavement and it was surprising how many people wouldn't see me because I was too short.

I am too fat and tall to be a jockey. This is not self-deprecation - I realise that I am neither too fat nor too tall - but I am too fat and too tall to be a jockey.

You have no control over how tall you are or how long your legs are, but you do have control over how much you concentrate.

When you're 250 pounds, you can push more people around, but you can't move as fast or jump as high.

Some athletes aren't small, they're just short.

Height doesn't matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Brees, Russell Wilson: they've proven that it doesn't matter.

I've been the same size since I was 12. They thought I was going to be 7 feet tall. I never grew another inch.