"My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world."
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"The world worries about disability more than disabled people do."
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"As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height."
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"In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills."
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"My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps."
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"I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest."
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"My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world."
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"So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do."
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"People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim."
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"I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties."
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"When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup."
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"There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside."
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"You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera."
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"Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation."
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"I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall."
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"And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now."
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"Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings."
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"If you love Harry Potter, you're going to absolutely love this...this is the biggest box set that Warner Bros. has ever done. If it was any bigger, it'd need wheels."
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"It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!"
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"I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well."
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