“I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.”

“I never wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be the next Muggsy Bogues. I was skinny and short. I'm no longer short. But I'm still skinny. I'm OK with that now. But I struggled with it. It's very weird to beat yourself up for being born in the wrong body.”

“I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.”

“Come on, I'm the tallest thing here. [...] I'm trying to be killed by lightning!”

“Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.”

“I'll do what I like, because I'm six foot five and I eat punks like you for breakfast.”

“I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.”

“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'm five feet tall - I'm very petite - so for me, if I'm wearing a skirt or dress, it needs to be short, or else it makes me look frumpy. I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.”

“I feel like I'm an ape with these limbs, and I'm very clumsy and I don't have a great sense of spatial awareness. A tall body with long limbs can be really elegant, but it can also just look like somebody who's still a kid and doesn't know their way around her body.”

“Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.”

“The Watutsi! That's it - the Watutsi! Oh, that's the tribe, some of them were eight foot tall. Can you imagine that. Eight foot of Watutsi. Not one on another's shoulders, oh no - eight foot of solid Watutsi. That's what I call tall.”

“I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it.”

“If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.”

“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”