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" 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. "
Out
Talk
Film
" 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. "
Lot
Like
Idiots
" Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery. "
Animals
Food
Machinery
" Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy. "
Tough
Anybody
Guy
" 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. "
People
Growing Up
Yourself
" Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good. "
People
Anything
Up
" As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. "
Angry
Walls
Up
" 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. "
Fun
Bad
You
" Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious. "
Think
Character
Television
" 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. "
Me
Real
You
" Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment. "
Stay
Out
Lived
" Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice. "
Last
Butt
Still
" 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. "
Cruelty
Cats
Year
" Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?' "
Really
Lord
Like
" 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. "
History
Life
Just Because
" Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore. "
Fantasy
Bookstore
Novels
" Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing. "
Care
Friends
Dwarf
" 'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia. "
Fans
People
Nice
" 'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO. "
Problem
Game
Amazing
" George Martin is an incredible writer. "
George
Writer
Martin
" I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it. "
Half
Life
Feet
" 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. "
End
Happy
Time
" I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf. "
Because
Dwarf
Like
" I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely. "
Actor
Hermit
Kind
" I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts. "
Sandwiches
Like
Eat
" I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am. "
Feel
Come
I Am
" I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes. "
Life
Hero
Good
" 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. "
Life
Years
Now
" I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete. "
Call
Word
Guess
" I have a big cynical side to me. "
Me
Side
Cynical
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