Tall Quotes

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.
Curtis Armstrong

Movies, Girl, Character

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.
Miranda Kerr

Young, Wanted, Used

I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.
Kristanna Loken

Deep, Almost, Knew

I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.
Betty Shabazz

Important, Though, Extreme

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.
Shirley Henderson

Sound, Characters, Blonde

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Harry Seidler

Great, War, Technology

I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
Veronica Roth

Time, God, Heart

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.
Tracy Austin

She, While, Sister

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin

Said, Couple, Pilots

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
Bill Skarsgard

Work, Happy, Pretty

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
Saskya Pandita

Great, May, Small

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.
William Joyce

Everything, Through, Made

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.
Sutton Foster

Laugh, Trying, Friends

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
Laura Miller

Love, Beautiful, Strong

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.
Richard Rodney Bennett

Away, Decide, Eventually

Trying to understand women is a tall order period.
Rick Schroder

Women, Trying, Understand

You know, I'm not real tall. I'm 6'0, 6'½, but I think people think I'm shorter than I am because I'm not the most muscular cat in the world.
Mark McGrath

Real, Cat, Muscular

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
Ed Wood

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
Philippa Gregory

Big, Cold, House

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

School, Girl, Thought

To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard.
Rebecca Black

Dad, Person, Friends

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
Calvin Harris

Shot, Height, Reaching

Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.
Tatjana Patitz

Health, Two, Fit

I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.
Kylie Bax

Away, Ugly, Picture

I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.
Matt Emmons

Girl, Awkward, Staring

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.
Peter Falk

My friend Jonathan had a great tree house. It was awesome. It was like a big fort up in this tall magnolia tree... That's where we would conduct our very important business, I'm sure, with all our bikes leaning up against a tree and no girls allowed, handling all sorts of important things you handle when you're seven or eight.
Eric Ladin

Great, Business, Important

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.
Jules Asner

Basketball, Play, Whole

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
Bridgette Wilson

Good, Forward, Basketball

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really 'big' weighing around 350 pounds.
Richard Kiel

Two, Big, Around

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