Warwick Davis

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.

If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

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

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

Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.

My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.

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.

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

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.

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

The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

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.

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.

If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

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.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

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.

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.