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We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.