Peter Dinklage Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
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If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
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The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
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I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?
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If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.
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I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
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Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
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I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.
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One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
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I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
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People thought I was a charlatan and a nut, he remembered. The doctors were against me - they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.
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'There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?''‘The mood will pass, sir.’
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I was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn't completed, you were called right back to finish it.
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For a man who professed to love God, he was filled with the vinegar of hatred and self-righteousness.
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I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.
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I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
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It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.
