Quotes About Body

I think calling me 'full-figured' is just rude.

I was having anxiety attacks, calling ambulances out and saying I was having a heart attack, as there was something weird going on with my body and mind.

I didn't know what to do with calories.

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

I have something called exercise bulimia, which is where you rid of your calories by over-exercising.

I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.

I get fat if I eat too many carbs. It's just the way my body is, so I gotta watch the carbs.

People make fun of me because I've been known to eat lunch things for breakfast. I'll eat a good salad. I'll maybe have some tempeh or kale in there. I try to make breakfast a lavish meal because, one, my body tells me to, and, two, that's what carries me through the day.

As an athlete, the body can fail you. I know. The mind and your education will be there to keep carrying you.

Often, there's an emphasis in my work, and it's sort of the celebrating of the body.

What appeals about the '70s is the celebration of the female form, the lack of constriction.

It's hard to dance after a certain age. All those athletic things - like looking up at my kneecaps - they're just not there anymore.

I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.

Having to look a certain way, or be a certain weight, comes from magazines, movies, the media.

It is okay, I believe it is not wrong for the industry or the audience to think that a lead actress must look a certain way or have a body of a certain type.

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

In Bollywood, better the body you have, the brighter are your chances of bagging roles.

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

I want to be as healthy as I possibly can be. I just want to make sure that I do everything to take care of myself. Like they say, charity begins at home. Love begins at home, too. So I want to do the best for me. I want to pamper myself and do the best for my body.

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.

The moment I lose weight, it shows on my face, and given how sharp my cheek bones are, it doesn't look good.

I have only one body, which is the home of my spirit; therefore, I cherish my body.