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

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.

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

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.

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

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

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.

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.

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

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.

When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.

All glory to Adonai! Great is thy love.Great is thy mercy.Great is thy faithfulness.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Before my sister, Sara, and I went to bed at night, my mom would show us books on Manet and other artists. Even then I was always really interested in how the women looked in the images.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks.

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

Hypnosis I believe is real. The only problem I guess I have is that, you know, if God or somebody who passed on in my life wanted to talk to me, why wouldn't they come directly to me?

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.