Peter Dinklage Quotes

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

With a lot of shows, what you'll see happen is they start off really well, and they're very original, but they become sort of a version of themselves. They stand outside the show ... they become a cliche of the show they once were. That's the whole 'jumping the shark' thing.

As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.

I have a big cynical side to me.

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.

A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.

I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.

Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.

I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete.

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.

I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.

I'm a private person in many ways.

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

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.

You want your privacy as a human being.

I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before.

We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species.

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.

The reason I like 'Breaking Bad,' which is still probably my favorite show, is Walter White. You watch him transform, and that's so fascinating. And I think. a lot of TV shows that aren't successful, it's because the characters become stagnant.

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.

There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow the beginning and the course of this planet, and it's a very long stairwell, and you follow, and you follow, and then you reach the top, and we're, like, half a step on the stairwell - the timeline for us on this planet.

I never know where women are coming from.

I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.

I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

Will Ferrell is just about the nicest guy - anyone can tell you that.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

I'm recognized, let me put it that way.

I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.

I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.

I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.

Raise the rest of your life to meet you.

I like the busted-nose look. I think it's a good look for me.

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.

My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.

I'm on 'Game Of Thrones,' and every time we have someone new coming on our show, we welcome them with open arms and get revitalised by this new presence. Then we kill them off very quickly.

I hate that word - 'lucky' ...

The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you.

'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia.

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.

I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy.

I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.

I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it.

The leads are often the boring part.

I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot.

What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'

Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment.

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.