Warwick Davis Quotes

Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
Warwick Davis

Nothing, Away, Film

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
Warwick Davis

Disability, Worries, Disabled

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.
Warwick Davis

Gone, Careful, Filmmakers

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
Warwick Davis

Often, Film, Actor

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
Warwick Davis

Older, Painful, Wear

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.
Warwick Davis

Character, Book, Him

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.
Warwick Davis

Start, Joke, Public

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
Warwick Davis

Nice, Mean, Fame

I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
Warwick Davis

Hope, Short, Act

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.
Warwick Davis

Hate, End, Find

I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
Warwick Davis

Mean, Question, Five

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.
Warwick Davis

After, Short, Run

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.
Warwick Davis

Time, Long, Play

I wouldn't change a thing about my family.
Warwick Davis

I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.
Warwick Davis

Good, Character, Trying

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
Warwick Davis

Home, Door, Actor

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.
Warwick Davis

Work, Made, Short

If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
Warwick Davis

Used, Almost, Next

If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
Warwick Davis

Character, Rather, Next

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
Warwick Davis

Body, Language, Skills

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!
Warwick Davis

Computers, Saying, Keep

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.
Warwick Davis

Humor, Great, Attitude

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.
Warwick Davis

Life, Yourself, Find

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.
Warwick Davis

Parents, Hard, Different

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.
Warwick Davis

Humor, Amazing, Parents

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: February 3, 1970

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