Time & Perspective Quote by Warwick Davis

There is something quietly radical in an actor best known for fantastical worlds insisting, almost plaintively, on being "an average guy". Warwick Davis is naming a gap between how the industry packages him and how he imagines himself: not as a novelty, not as a special effect with a face, but as a recognizable human presence who gets to live inside ordinary stakes. The line reads like a career note, but the subtext is a demand for access to normalcy on screen - the kind most performers take for granted.

Invoking John Candy sharpens that desire. Candy wasnone of comedy's great embodiments of warmth: a big-hearted everyman who made vulnerability funny without making it pathetic. To say he "would have loved to play opposite" Candy is to point toward a specific kind of comedy Davis wants: not punchlines built around difference, but a two-hander rooted in character, rhythm, and mutual dignity. The "sadly, now I can never realize that" lands as more than celebrity mourning; it's an acknowledgment of how timing and gatekeeping shape careers, and how certain imaginative pairings only happen when the culture can picture them.

The final pivot - "But I'd like to do comedy" - isn't a consolation prize. It's a re-assertion. Comedy is where Davis can claim space as a full performer, not a symbol, and where audiences are most ready to accept him as someone with desires, disappointments, and timing rather than as a category.