The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

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.

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.

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 artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.

Do not hate someone else’s ‘shine’…but have enough courage to look in the mirror and see the truth for what it is.

Success is all about believing, always visualizing what you want to do and want to be and act accordingly on it until become it reality.

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.

I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

My husband always smells good to me.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.