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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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