Top 25 Warwick Davis Quotes

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.

When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

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.

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.

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?’

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.

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.

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

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.

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

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.

My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.

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.

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.

There’s nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that’s happening outside.

The way people deal with me – they’ll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone’s so worried about what they’re saying to everyone else, that they don’t talk very much.

People who are short, they’re often portrayed as the victim.

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.

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

To me that’s part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I’m under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It’s about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

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.

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

I wouldn’t change a thing about my family.

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

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.