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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 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
I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf. -- Peter Dinklage
I would love to play Richard III. -- Peter Dinklage
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd. -- Peter Dinklage
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. -- Peter Dinklage
I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun. -- Peter Dinklage
Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy. -- 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
I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it. -- Peter Dinklage
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely. -- Peter Dinklage
My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor. -- Peter Dinklage
Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately. -- 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
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
Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing. -- Peter Dinklage
I hate that word - 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work -- Peter Dinklage
What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl. -- Peter Dinklage
I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete. -- Peter Dinklage
I have a big cynical side to me. -- Peter Dinklage
My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person. And he's pretty dark. -- 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
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil. -- Peter Dinklage
I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger ... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like. -- 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
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
It was hard doing scenes with Bobby Cannavale because I would break up laughing because he's so funny. -- Peter Dinklage
I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle. -- Peter Dinklage
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. -- Peter Dinklage
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs. -- 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
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
When people are infected by my charm, they don't see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting. -- Peter Dinklage
Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?' -- Peter Dinklage
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. -- 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 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
'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO. -- Peter Dinklage
I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes. -- 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
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. -- Peter Dinklage
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. -- Peter Dinklage
A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers. -- Peter Dinklage
I hate that word - 'lucky' ... -- 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
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
We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long. -- 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
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? -- Peter Dinklage
'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. -- 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
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
I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties. -- Peter Dinklage
As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. -- Peter Dinklage
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. -- Peter Dinklage
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am. -- Peter Dinklage
Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery. -- 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 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
Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people. -- Peter Dinklage
I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant. -- Peter Dinklage
Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good. -- Peter Dinklage
Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot. -- Peter Dinklage
You'd be surprised how condescending people can be. -- Peter Dinklage
I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts. -- 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 like the busted-nose look. I think it's a good look for me. -- 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
I never know where women are coming from. -- Peter Dinklage
Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.' -- Peter Dinklage
George Martin is an incredible writer. -- Peter Dinklage
The leads are often the boring part. -- Peter Dinklage
I'm a private person in many ways. -- Peter Dinklage
Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice. -- Peter Dinklage
The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you. -- 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 think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in 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
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
People have the strangest ideas about dwarves. -- 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
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
'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia. -- 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
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious. -- Peter Dinklage
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule. -- Peter Dinklage
I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television. -- Peter Dinklage
It is hard working with animals, I've got to say. -- 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
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. -- Peter Dinklage
There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors. -- Peter Dinklage
Will Ferrell is just about the nicest guy - anyone can tell you that. -- Peter Dinklage
I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself. -- Peter Dinklage
I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles. -- Peter Dinklage
Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus. -- 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 have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!' -- Peter Dinklage
I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s. -- Peter Dinklage
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. -- Peter Dinklage
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. -- Peter Dinklage
I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings. -- Peter Dinklage
I'm recognized, let me put it that way. -- Peter Dinklage
Call me Elf ... one more time! -- 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
You want your privacy as a human being. -- Peter Dinklage
I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie. -- Peter Dinklage
Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that. -- Peter Dinklage
Since I've joined 'Game of Thrones,' it's been such a pleasure. -- Peter Dinklage
Raise the rest of your life to meet you. -- 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
