Peter Dinklage Quotes

Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

Peter Dinklage

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• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• I first read Heinlein when I was very young.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Young
  • First
  • Very

• I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Power

• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Black
  • Stereotypes

• Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Freaks
  • Galactica

• You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Party

• If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Book
  • Author
  • Choose

• There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Long
  • Man
  • Justice

• I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Husband
  • Worried
  • Jealous

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• We are all terminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Terminal

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • World
  • Art
  • Doing

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Divorce
  • Incredible
  • Phobia

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

  

  Charles E. Young
  • Up
  • Fun

• Food scenes in movies are traditionally nightmares to shoot - you just can't fake eating, and you usually have to repeat it a lot of times to get the angles you need. It's actually quite a lot to ask of actors, and there's really nowhere to hide.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Food
  • Fake

• We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • American
  • Forever
  • Trump

• We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

  

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  • People
  • Sorrow
  • Comfort

• Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Food