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Every job leads to the next open door, hopefully, ... The good thing `The Station Agent` did, if anything, it allowed people to think outside the box about someone my size in what some people considered a leading-man role, which nobody had seen before. That`s not why I did it. I loved the part and the people involved.

It just takes you somewhere,

I`d love to have that story like Dustin Hoffman or John Malkovich, ... Who was it that followed some woman into an acting class and then they suddenly thought, `Oh this is cool.` and that`s how they became an actor. I`d love to have a story like that, but I don`t. I`ve just been doing it since I was a kid and enjoying it.

I`ve done roles that aren`t written for somebody who`s a dwarf, ... I think it`s just bad writing if you`re constantly reminding the audience I am one. There I am, I`m on screen. I`m under 5 feet tall. Why would you have to be reminding the audience left and right?

I`d love to have that story like Dustin Hoffman or John Malkovich, ... Who was it that followed some woman into an acting class and then they suddenly thought, `Oh this is cool.` and that`s how they became an actor. I`d love to have a story like that, but I don`t. I`ve just been doing it since I was a kid and enjoying it.

I had to shave my head for another project, and there`s a very brief moment in the film when it`s a wig, ... If you don`t know which part of the film is a wig, that means they did a very good job with the wig.

I like animals, all animals. I wouldn`t hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn`t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That`s why I`m a vegetarian.

(Expletive) great, ... Shave my head, cover me in blood, and I`m into it. Learn to fight with a sword? Why not!

Hope Leaves the Theater.

(On short stature): When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it`s not your problem. It`s theirs.