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Fat Quotes
Weight, humor, and the will to change it.
One line here is pure self-deprecating humor about carrying extra weight, while another recalls a memorably sweaty music-video moment built around a bigger-than-life performer. See Fat Man quotes for more in that vein.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I was fat, and I was teased mercilessly. But once I grew up and got out of my unhealthy relationship with food, for the most part I've had a very healthy view. If I ever find myself getting worried about how I'll look on the red carpet, I'll take a step back and look at what's really going on inside.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I got really fat when I left home was because I thought rich people ate white bread and Spam. I also thought they could get processed meals, because we never did, so that was exciting.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really irrelevant, but I wouldn't want to be stick thin. It's better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always had something to say about the fact I was odd looking, bigger than other people, that I was awkward. When I discovered punk, I bought into it. That look, combined with being fat, made me even less of what people thought a young woman should be.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It's hard to deny the flavor quotient there.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.
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- Nov 07, 2020