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

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.

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

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.

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.

Nature is woman's best friend, ' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

I’m a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel.

How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

I'm not trying to be coy, but I think everyone notices these things like skin color but some people are more aware that they are noticing them than others, maybe. If that makes sense.

I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.

Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls of the Germanwings flight.

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."