"I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds"
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The intent reads like image management with a wink. Wallice frames himself as disciplined and professionally optimized: personal trainer, workouts, feeling good, muscular. That sequence hits familiar cultural beats of late-20th-century masculinity: self-improvement as virtue, muscle as proof of control, and the body as résumé. Then he undercuts the whole performance with the weight number, which works as both humility and a subtle indictment. He’s acknowledging that the benchmark for “big” in his world is calibrated to the camera, casting directors, and comparison culture, not to ordinary bodies.
Subtextually, it’s a reminder that “fitness” is often a narrative people are pressured to tell, especially actors whose careers can hinge on looking a certain kind of strong. The last sentence functions like a receipt: the industry can demand maximal effort for minimal physical change, because what’s really being manufactured is not size but an illusion of dominance, health, and desirability.
Context matters: for an actor, “muscular” is less a private achievement than a market signal. Wallice’s numbers make the signal visible, and a little absurd.
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Wallice, Marc. (2026, January 15). I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-as-big-as-i-have-ever-been-i-had-a-personal-156721/
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Wallice, Marc. "I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-as-big-as-i-have-ever-been-i-had-a-personal-156721/.
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"I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-as-big-as-i-have-ever-been-i-had-a-personal-156721/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.






