As an actor in Star Wars, the first time you see yourself immortalized as a Star Wars toy is a very exciting moment, however old you are, the first time it happened to me was when I was 11 years old in Return of the Jedi, and as a young boy to actually have a toy of yourself is a mind-blowing experience.

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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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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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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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But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

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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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People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.

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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 don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

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My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.

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