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 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.

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.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.