Height Inequality Quotes

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

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

In my school days, everyone thought I'm too tall for a Chinese girl.

I'm only five feet tall, so I'm short.

I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall.

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.'

I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.

One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it.

I'm too tall. I am 6ft 7in, so I've been most people's height at some point in my life, and 6ft 4in is the best. You're tall, but you don't have to bend when you go through a door.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

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

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

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.

I've always been one of the smallest, if not the smallest guy on the football field.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

I can't beat guys consistently playing like I'm 5-foot-10.

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

Heightism is the last unchecked prejudice.

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 have always been short, and most people want to be taller. That's sort of a thing, but I love being short.

A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

It's fun down there to actually go up against a 7-footer and you know you're undersized and you know people are telling you that you can't guard this guy, you can't do that. I take it as a challenge.

I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.