Peter Dinklage Quotes
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I saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need.
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I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
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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 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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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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You want your privacy as a human being.
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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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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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'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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Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
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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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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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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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Since I've joined 'Game of Thrones,' it's been such a pleasure.
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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've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.