The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. ' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.
I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.
When a newspaper comes out that says 'Duff' Puff - she must have gained 15 pounds' or something like that, how would any normal person react?
Shawn Carter was born December 4th, Weighing in at 10 pounds, 8 ounces. He was the last of my 4 children, The only one who didn't give me any pain when I gave birth to him. . . . And that's how I knew that he was a special child.
A million pounds sounds like a lot of money now that I'm saying it. But in terms of moviemaking, it's not a lot of money. And yet you can see what can be done with that, with the talent of a great cinematographer and great director and actors.
Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.
Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.
At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.
Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?
I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.
Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'
I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?