He told The Hollywood Reporter: "We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot, the staunchest and toughest of dwarves, than Billy Connolly, the Big Yin himself.
"We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot, the staunchest and toughest of the dwarves, than... the Big Yin himself," he said.
There doesn't seem to be a more fitting actor than Peters to tackle the role of Bishop Enoch.
The Danish Prince seems a fitting motif for an actor who manages to convey so much of the inner workings of his characters with nuance and suggestion.
It was a fitting invitation for this actor, who's been pondering Web strategy since before most people got their first dial-up connection.
It's a testament to the positive energy which surrounds Gilliam that he was able to conjure "A Film by Heath Ledger and Friends" which seems to be exactly that – a fitting tribute to an actor which is never mawkish but often magical and occasionally rather marvellous.
A fitting tribute to an underrated actor – Widmark, not Gibson.
The Misfits, in which Gable portrays a cowboy out of place in the modern world, was a fitting final movie for an actor who epitomized Hollywood's Golden Age and who himself was something of a misfit in the era of television and method actors.
I did, however, share a plane with Aaron Eckhart, and even though he's not exactly a superstar (at least not yet), the hard-working actor proved a fitting prefiguration to my trip.
His stark images provide a fitting stage for the splendid actors' brazen rhetorical battles.
Released days before the death of the actor, the album nevertheless offers a fitting tribute.
