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Everything in my house has ha...

Everything in my house has had to be specially adapted, from the height of the bed to the positioning of doorknobs. Even my Rolls Royce had special stacked pedals and an extra-low steering wheel.

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I started out Ice skating wit...

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

Kenny Baker 7 quotes

I'm the smallest man in show ...

I'm the smallest man in show business, and I've got the smallest bird in Britain nesting in my garden.

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They don't always use dwarfs,...

They don't always use dwarfs, unfortunately. They shouldn't be allowed to do that! How dare they do 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and not have dwarfs!

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There are not very many oppor...

There are not very many opportunities for little people in the industry. There are small parts and character parts, but we don't get the girl-at-the-end-of-the-film kind of parts... but I was quite happy with what I was doing.

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I skated in ice shows all ove...

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

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I didn't really get involved ...

I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.

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I had a day off, and I was wa...

I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me, and Alec Guinness leaned out and said, 'What are you doing, Kenny?' I said, 'I'm just walking around,' and he said, 'Do you want to come and see an oasis with my wife and I?' There was nothing arrogant or flash about him at all.

Kenny Baker 7 quotes

I started out Ice skating wit...

I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

Kenny Baker 7 quotes

I miss being able to play my ...

I miss being able to play my instruments - I'm too much of a physical wreck these days. Playing the vibraphone gives me backache, leg ache, and everything-else ache, and the asthma means I no longer have enough puff to play harmonica.

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When TV came in, it closed a ...

When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.

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I started performing in 1950 ...

I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester's Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart's Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.

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There just aren't many little...

There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they don't go to RADA. There just aren't the parts for dwarfs, and if you like it or not, you're typecast as a dwarf.

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I do enjoy doing pantomime at...

I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.

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I've always been a cabaret-va...

I've always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist - an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel - somebody like that. That's my main forte.

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And now, with the aid of this ...

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

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I've been in show business for...

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

Kenny Baker 7 quotes

I started out Ice skating with...

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

Kenny Baker 7 quotes

I skated in ice shows all over...

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

Kenny Baker 7 quotes

I've been in show business for...

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

Kenny Baker 7 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....