Peter Dinklage

Actor

1969-06-11

Quotes by Peter Dinklage

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

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

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• 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.

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

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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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• People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

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• 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.

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• I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings.

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• Any swagger is just defense. When you're 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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