Peter Dinklage Quotations

(Expletive) great, ... Shave my head, cover me in blood, and I'm into it. Learn to fight with a sword? Why not!

Every job leads to the next open door, hopefully, ... The good thing 'The Station Agent' did, if anything, it allowed people to think outside the box about someone my size in what some people considered a leading-man role, which nobody had seen before. That's not why I did it. I loved the part and the people involved.

I've done roles that aren't written for somebody who's a dwarf, ... I think it's just bad writing if you're constantly reminding the audience I am one. There I am, I'm on screen. I'm under 5 feet tall. Why would you have to be reminding the audience left and right?

I had to shave my head for another project, and there's a very brief moment in the film when it's a wig, ... If you don't know which part of the film is a wig, that means they did a very good job with the wig.

I'd love to have that story like Dustin Hoffman or John Malkovich, ... Who was it that followed some woman into an acting class and then they suddenly thought, 'Oh this is cool.' and that's how they became an actor. I'd love to have a story like that, but I don't. I've just been doing it since I was a kid and enjoying it.

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

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

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

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

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.

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.

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 do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

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.

That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

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.

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.

[on his dwarfism] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs.

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.

Call me Elf......one more time!

George Martin is an incredible writer.

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.

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

I hate that word - 'lucky' ...

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

I love 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.

Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

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.