Quotes About Identity

I kind of expect that the people wouldn't know me. I know I'm tall and I cannot escape that.

I really didn't have aspirations. I was just tall.

I love being tall. I see guys who don't handle it so well, like that Dwayne Schintzius of Florida. I don't want to sound ignorant or anything, but that guy's got a problem.

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

When you're a teenager, you don't want to look different. So being very tall can set you apart, not being able to see very well can set you apart... and you just want to fit in. We all do.

Unfortunately the work that I do and the way the public perceives me is that I'm the hot, tall blonde. Of course I play it up.

I've not liked how people treat you sometimes, but I love being tall.

People always like to make me seem taller than I am.

I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.

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 don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.

I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.

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

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 was always the taller one in my class - I was always bigger - and as you get older, you just get more and more self-conscious.

As a teenager I was really self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone else. And in Australia there weren't many black girls around - there definitely weren't any dark girls on TV - so I didn't really have anyone to look up to.

I was always taller than every other boy my age. So, whenever there was one boy who was taller than me I was like, 'Yes. He's the one.' Even if he definitely wasn't.

I feel like my earliest encounters with mascots, they were never too receptive of me. I was a taller child. I always looked a little older than I was. I don't think I ever got proper attention from those mascots.

I feel like my game has always been compressed and lowered because I'm taller, more passionate.

One fan reaction I keep getting is 'we thought you were taller.'

I felt like I was the odd one out growing up in the province because I was half-Filipino and half-German, so I wasn't full-blooded Filipina and, of course, I was the tallest in my class and I felt kind of awkward.

I've always been the tallest; I didn't shoot up. That's who I am.

I'm not the tallest or the thinnest - and I think being in shows is a major part of when I stopped second-guessing myself.

I was always the tallest. I was five foot seven when I finished junior school.