Verne Troyer Quotes

I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.

Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad.

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'

I don't see midgets as abnormal people.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.

It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

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

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

The one thing little people don't like is the 'M' word, 'midget.'

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'

You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never.

Whether you're a dwarf, whether you're a midget, it's all branding.

I lived in L.A. for seven years, and if you're a German actor, they always throw the Nazi parts at you.

I would like to do a nice comedy/drama feature with a good part, but nobody's asked me to do a film. Maybe it's because they don't know what to do with a guy in a dress.

It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.