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.

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.

Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free

In India everything has a use and a value.

I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.

I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking

The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.