Quotes About Height

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it.

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 love my height because when I'm doing gymnastics, it really benefits the sport - and also, I think being short is kind of cute.

I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.

I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

I love wearing heels but don't wear it too often because I am comfortable about my height. And for me, comfort comes first.

At my height, I've got to be fast.

My directors feel that, because of my height, I look better in action sequences.

I started doing work as an extra and began taking acting classes. My height didn't seem to matter and no one was making fun of me. I found where I belonged.

I guess what I've been told makes me dangerous is my height and length, so I just use that.

I feel like I'm a matchup problem, but that's of course because of my height and the height difference at my position sometimes.

New York is a town of my height.

I was a normal height back in the day.

Mom was 6-4, 235 herself.

Height is a funny thing in tennis because it definitely helps the serve, but it can hinder agility and movement. I think I have to spend a lot more time working on movement and flexibility than some of my shorter colleagues.

for everyone there is something unendurable - something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and cowardice are not involved. If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope. If you have come up from deep water it is not cowardly to fill your lungs with air. It is merely an instinct which cannot be disobeyed

VII The happiness we find in becoming is possible only by annihilating the reality of "existences" and lovely appearance, and through the pessimistic destruction of illusions: so, by annihilating even the loveliest appearances, Dionysian happiness attains its height.

Granted, it's not easy to be a super-tall woman in Hollywood. But there are times when it works in my favour. In 'The Night Manager,' for example, both of my co-stars, Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, are also well over 6 ft. and it was lovely to look a co-star in the eye and not have them standing on an apple box!

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.

Tim Miller's idea of Colossus was to be bigger and stronger than everyone else, so for the motion capture, they needed an extremely tall man. I'm 6-foot-4, but he wanted Colossus to be over 7 feet, so they used a stunt double to recreate his height, and he did very good job there.

When I did 'Spamalot,' the joke was that I was a foot taller than Tim Curry.

Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.