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American actor and producer, Birth: 11-6-1969 Peter Dinklage Quotes
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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

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

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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.
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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.
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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.
Peter Dinklage

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You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
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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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I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.
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George Martin is an incredible writer.
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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.
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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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Call me Elf......one more time!
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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.
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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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I feel really lucky, although I hate that word - 'lucky'.
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I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
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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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I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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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.
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I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
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29.
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
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