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I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking

“I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.”

— Uma Thurman (film Actress, 1970- )

So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?

“People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?'”

— Julia Roberts (Actress, 1967- )

a turkey buzzard sharing companionably with an egret

“[He] is a tall, grandly built man; [she] tall and delicate. Both are narrow-faced with long, imperial noses; as they pose for pictures, it is a turkey buzzard sharing companionably with an egret.”

— Richard Eder

I act tall

“I act tall!”

— Salma Hayek (Mexican Actress, 1966- )

Tall, sandy blonde

“Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.”

— Uma Thurman (film Actress. 1970- )

Oh my God, you're so tall!

"Oh my God, you're so tall! You should really play basketball."

— clueless woman to Shaquille O'Neal

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade

“The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.”

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Basketball Player, 1947- )

I'm too tall to be a girl

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

— Julia Roberts (Actress, 1967- )

about as tall as a shotgun

“Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.”

— Truman Capote (short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1924-1984)

Tall men come down to my height

“Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.”

— Jack Dempsey

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