
Top 100 I'm Overweight Quotes
#2. I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.
Neil Cavuto
#3. I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
Alber Elbaz
#4. I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.
Kirstie Alley
#5. I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a man. It's like - complete collapse, every year.
Graydon Carter
#6. If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.
Emma Bell
#7. It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight ... Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.
Lena Dunham
#8. I'm thirteen years old, and I'm somewhat overweight. Meaning: I'm dead and fat. Meaning: I'm a piggy-pig-pig, oink-oink, real porker. Just ask my mom. I'm thirteen and fat - and I will stay this way forever. And yes, I know the word ulcerate. I'm dead, not illiterate.
Chuck Palahniuk
#9. People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.
Jonah Hill
#10. Everything - and I mean everything - fucking hurts. I feel as if I've been trampled. By elephants. Carrying wrestlers. Overweight wrestlers.
Ruby Dixon
#11. I'd still trust an overly fat person over a skinny one any day. The best adviser would have a very specific body type: pudgy or just a little overweight. This makes it clear they have a somewhat unhealthy relationship with food, but not a clinical problem. They
Jim Gaffigan
#12. I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.
Gene Kelly
#13. I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
Stephen Furst
#14. I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.
Paul Daniels
#15. I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems.
Eva Longoria
#16. Wow" is all I can say. I'm amazed. It never occurred to me to change the clothes to fit me. I always thought it had to be the other way around. And it never occurred to me that people who aren't overweight could have trouble with the off the rack sizes.
K.A. Barson
#17. My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
Vidya Balan
#18. I'm not overweight, but I'm not in shape at all. I do not work out.
Lea Thompson
#19. You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.
Carly Simon
#20. I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.
Lindsay Lohan
#21. Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.
Daphne Merkin
#22. Overweight people have chosen food over appearance. When a fat person talks about a great place to get a burger, I lean in. They know.
Jim Gaffigan
#23. There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight ... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.
Paula Deen
#24. He was at least twenty pounds overweight, and was pushing for more. As a bachelor, he couldn't cook, and ended up having most of his meals in bars. Sometimes he even ate.
Christopher I. Warner
#25. People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.
Mila Kunis
#26. And the daughter. Bit of a social failure. Well, that's putting it delicately. Quite overweight. Collects the cats, if you know what I mean.
Donna Tartt
#27. We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
Valentina Zelyaeva
#28. I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'
Kim Alexis
#29. Anyway, I suppose in part I'm telling this story now because I want all of you - and I do mean all - to know that I wasn't always a somewhat-overweight woman without an upper lip to her name who can occasionally be found sleeping behind her face and always thinking in her mouth.
Carrie Fisher
#30. I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of that, I didn't like the idea of big crowds. I found it quite frightening. I enjoy the company of people who I know, and I'm probably still like that today.
Deborah Mailman
#31. Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
Ryan Reynolds
#32. From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.
David Keith
#33. I'm not overweight. I'm simply overgravitated. Spell-check
Jenny Lawson
#34. I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology.
Jennifer Egan
#35. Your Highness, give me some credit. We have dined together for weeks now. There is no one to talk to during our meals except for an overweight dog. I will have noticed some things about you." Severin
K.M. Shea
#36. I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.
Marcus Brigstocke
#37. Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.
Richard Simmons
#38. I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body.
Holly Madison
#39. I grew up being teased for being overweight.
Kelly Price
#40. There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
Karl Lagerfeld
#41. When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.
Daphne Oz
#42. Although I have never been 100 lbs overweight, I know the effects of not feeling comfortable in my own skin.
Kim Lyons
#43. Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#44. I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in a certain realm of popular cultutre. That gives me great joy and excitement, but I don't go to the media saying, "And I'm also the world's greatest actor."
John Hodgman
#45. Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
Jo Brand
#46. Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence.
Zach Braff
#47. I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.
Phil McGraw
#48. Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight ...
Matthew Quick
#49. I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.
Alex Honnold
#50. Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.
Sue Townsend
#51. [On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.
Dolly Parton
#52. When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.
Richard Simmons
#53. That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.
Stephanie Klein
#54. Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.
Star Jones
#55. I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.
Lorenzo Lamas
#56. Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds."
T. Harv Eker
#57. I've always made a point of playing parts where weight has nothing to do with it, and not just weight but looks. It's about being funny and being interesting, and I think there are a lot more interesting things to play than being overweight.
Sarah Baker
#58. I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight.
George Singleton
#59. I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.
Lily Tomlin
#60. Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.
Tom Vilsack
#62. The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
Orla Brady
#64. I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.
Andie MacDowell
#65. As a teen I was totally that dumpy overweight nerdy girl that nobody wants to be in the stories you're told. And now I am a dumpy overweight nerdy adult and life is beautiful like a song. I'm not a flower that bloomed in the mud. Just a girl who stayed steady on the path of determination.
Lauren DeStefano
#66. A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.
Wendy Wasserstein
#67. Girls like dudes that are overweight. I know too many women who say, "I like you now that you've got a little thicker," and I don't really know any woman that says, "I like you now that you've got bald."
Chadwick Boseman
#69. When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.
Richard Simmons
#70. I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin.
Katie McGrath
#71. P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.
Herschel Walker
#72. I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
Kate Walsh
#73. I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.
Mindy Kaling
#74. I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.
Daphne Oz
#75. Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.
Stephen Furst
#76. For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.
Lindsey Vonn
#77. You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
Maddie Ziegler
#78. I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
Camryn Manheim
#79. My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.
Jack LaLanne
#80. I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
Herschel Walker
#82. For all I knew this was going to be just another in a string of fabulous cock-ups that seemed to be scripted for us by some unknown writer somwhere, some overweight forty-year old loafing in cargo shorts and flip-flops.
Mark Henry
#83. There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure.
Jay Leno
#84. I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight - and that was just their hair.
Bob Hope
#85. I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.
Sinead O'Connor
#86. People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#87. I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
Gloria Estefan
#88. I can't keep protecting people who don't want to run about and train, who are about three stone overweight. What am I supposed to keep saying? 'Keep getting your 60, 70 grand a week but don't train'? What's the game coming to?
Harry Redknapp
#89. I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.
John Niven
#90. I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.
Peter Jackson
#91. My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.
Hayley Atwell
#92. Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.
Richard Simmons
#93. I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
David Bowie
#94. People say I'm a disgrace to the human race. I love overweight women when they sit on my face.
R.A. The Rugged Man
#95. I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.
Henry Cavill
#96. Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.
Cathy Guisewite
#97. If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.
Michael J. Fox
#98. I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.
Colin Baker
#99. There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.
Milla Jovovich
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