Quotes
 Every job leads to the next open door, hopefully, ... The good thing `The Station Agent` did, if anything, it allowed people to think outside the box about someone my size in what some people considered a leading-man role, which nobody had seen before. That`s not why I did it. I loved the part and the people involved. It just takes you somewhere,
(thinkexist.com)
I`d love to have that story like Dustin Hoffman or John Malkovich, ... Who was it that followed some woman into an acting class and then they suddenly thought, `Oh this is cool.` and that`s how they became an actor. I`d love to have a story like that, but I don`t. I`ve just been doing it since I was a kid and enjoying it.
(thinkexist.com)
I`ve done roles that aren`t written for somebody who`s a dwarf, ... I think it`s just bad writing if you`re constantly reminding the audience I am one. There I am, I`m on screen. I`m under 5 feet tall. Why would you have to be reminding the audience left and right?
(thinkexist.com)
I`d love to have that story like Dustin Hoffman or John Malkovich, ... Who was it that followed some woman into an acting class and then they suddenly thought, `Oh this is cool.` and that`s how they became an actor. I`d love to have a story like that, but I don`t. I`ve just been doing it since I was a kid and enjoying it.
(thinkexist.com)
I had to shave my head for another project, and there`s a very brief moment in the film when it`s a wig, ... If you don`t know which part of the film is a wig, that means they did a very good job with the wig.
(thinkexist.com)
I like animals, all animals. I wouldn`t hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn`t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That`s why I`m a vegetarian.
(imdb.com)
(Expletive) great, ... Shave my head, cover me in blood, and I`m into it. Learn to fight with a sword? Why not!
(thinkexist.com)
Hope Leaves the Theater.
(thinkexist.com)
[On short stature]: When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it`s not your problem. It`s theirs.
(imdb.com)
Trivia
Son of an elementary school music teacher and retired insurance salesman. Both parents are of normal height, as is older brother, John, a violinist.
(imdb.com)
Has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism in which the body is perfectly formed but the bones initially modelled in cartilage, the long bones of the arms and legs, do not grow long enough. Velasquez painted a fine portrait of a man with this condition which hangs in the Prado in Madrid.
(imdb.com)
Is a vegetarian. Anytime you see him eating a meat product on screen, it is a tofu product (such as the tofu "beef" jerky, in The Station Agent (2003)).
(imdb.com)
November 2004 - engaged to theater director Erica Schmidt.
(imdb.com)
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