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

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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. "

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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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" I get about three letters a day from all over the world. "

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

" 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. "

" Everything went wrong for me in the 1990s. "

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

" 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. "

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

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