Dinklage Quotes

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

Raise the rest of your life to meet you. ~ Peter Dinklage

I hate that word - 'lucky' ... ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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

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

You want your privacy as a human being. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles. ~ Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York! ~ Sam Trammell

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

I have a big cynical side to me. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

George Martin is an incredible writer. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage. ~ Gwendoline Christie

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

The leads are often the boring part. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful. ~ Jerome Flynn

I'm a private person in many ways. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

I never know where women are coming from. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

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

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

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. ~ Peter Dinklage

Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing. ~ Peter Dinklage

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. ~ Peter Dinklage