Zitat des Tages von Kenny Baker:
I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.
When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.
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.
I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
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'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.
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.
I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.
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 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.