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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. "
Special
House
Wheel
" Everything went wrong for me in the 1990s. "
Me
Wrong
Everything
" I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person. "
Person
Being
Get
" I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something. "
Missing
Christmas
Doing
" I get about three letters a day from all over the world. "
Day
Three
Over
" 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. "
Walking
Me
You
" 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. "
Me
Too Much
Play
" I'm the smallest man in show business, and I've got the smallest bird in Britain nesting in my garden. "
Bird
Show
Business
" I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. "
Over
Love
Europe
" I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. "
Started
Just
Holiday
" 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. "
DJ
Shadow
Organization
" 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. "
Luxury
Back
More
" 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. "
Like
Show
Hotel
" I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act. "
Variety
Show
School
" 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. "
Doing
Character
Small
" 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. "
Go
Training
Like
" 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! "
How
Always
Seven
" When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away. "
Even
Away
Ice
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