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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.