Quotes by Kenny Baker - Page 1

I get about three letters a day from all over the world.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Letters
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I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Actual
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When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Ice
Closed
Melted
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And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Beer
Glasses
Play
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I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Europe
Ice
South Africa
Years
Africa
Skate
Skated
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I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Holiday
Ice
Skating
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I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Holiday
Ice
Skating
Offered
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I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
Kenny Baker / Actor
School
Show Business
Taxi
Variety
Years
Join
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I'm the smallest man in show business, and I've got the smallest bird in Britain nesting in my garden.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Bird
Britain
Garden
Show Business
Smallest
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I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Christmas
Missing
Pantomime
Feel Doing Something
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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.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Cabaret
Forte
Hotel
Floor
Main
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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!
Kenny Baker / Actor
Dare
Seven
Snow
Snow White
Allowed
Unfortunately
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I used to tour the theatres and clubs with an 18-foot luxury caravan strapped to the back of my Roller - it was a damn site more comfortable than most hotels.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Clubs
Damn
Luxury
Site
Caravan
Hotels
Roller
Strapped
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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.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Adapted
Bed
Height
Special
Steering
Positioning
Rolls
Stacked
Wheel
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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.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Good Actors
Typecast
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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.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Age
Circus
Clown
Mecca
Organization
Performing
Shadow
Smart
Became
Billy
Joined
Lester
Performer
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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.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Little People
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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.
Kenny Baker / Actor
Instruments
Puff
Too Much
Aches
Miss
Gives
Harmonica
Leg
Longer
Physical
Wreck
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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 / Actor
Arrogant
Flash
Guinness
Oasis
One Day
Walking
Wife
Wife Me Day
Alec
Alongside
Me Day Street
Street
Just Walking
Mercedes
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