Tallest Quotes

(In reference to King Kong (1933)) "He (Merian Cooper) called me into his office and showed me sketches of jungle scenes and told me, `You`re going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.` Naturally, I thought Clark Gable. But then he showed me this sketch of a giant ape up the side of the Empire State Building, and he said, `There`s your leading man.`" (2004)

(on how he was cast as the monster in "The Curse of Frankenstein") I was asked to play the creature chiefly because of my size and height which had effectively kept me out of many pictures I might have appeared in during the preceding ten years. Most British stars flatly refused to have me anywhere near them in a film, because I was easily the tallest man around.

They`re the tallest things around.

Michael Owen isn`t the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

There are real bragging rights to being the tallest that go back 3,000 years. Exceeding or exalting for spiritual reasons or a demonstration of power dates back from Babylon on - wanting to take a place in history, reserve a place in the timeline. Height is a fixation.

There are real bragging rights to being the tallest that go back 3,000 years. Exceeding or exalting for spiritual reasons or a demonstration of power dates back from Babylon on - wanting to take a place in history, reserve a place in the timeline. Height is a fixation.