Peter Dinklage Quotes
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Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.
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I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
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Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.
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I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
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They'll say, 'Oh, he's sexy,' but women still go for guys who are 6ft 2 ins. I don't believe any of it for a minute.
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Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
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Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.
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Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.
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I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.
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I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.
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I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.
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You want your privacy as a human being.
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'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man.
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It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.
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I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.
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I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.
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Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
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It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.
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I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
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Since I've joined 'Game of Thrones,' it's been such a pleasure.
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I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me a bottle as a gift. I was thinking we should totally put this on the market. You know how Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have signature perfumes and make a mint? I'm thinking this cologne could be my ticket to fortune.
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Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
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Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'