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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.

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Warwick Davis
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 3
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
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Warwick Ashley Davis
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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.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!
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I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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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.
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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.
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People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.
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But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup.
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There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
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I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
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I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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