Peter Dinklage Quotes

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

Peter Dinklage

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• Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Care

• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Business
  • You
  • Advertising

• Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hurt

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Children
  • Think
  • Nice

• I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Write
  • Walk

• The good romances are as good as anything.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Good
  • Anything
  • Romances

• I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • Community
  • Christian
  • Hero

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Health
  • Weight
  • Obvious

• The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Theater

• Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Kind
  • Going

• It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Realize

• Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • You
  • Best
  • Voice

• I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Life
  • Age
  • Early

• I want to be open about my condition to show others that they are not alone in dealing with this form of chronic hives. My advice for people with CIU is to talk to their doctor about their condition.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Alone
  • Advice

• My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Father
  • Day
  • Oil

• Her respectful tone sounded almost sincere.

  

  Ann Leckie

• … the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Cat
  • Lonely

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• Self-expression should not be a challenge that demands extraordinary talent but should be a right accessible to all.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Challenge

• I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Wish

• Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.

  

  Eileen O'Brien
  • Humanity
  • Identity
  • Challenges

• I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

  

  Peter Dinklage