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" Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery. "

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" 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. "

" Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that. "

" It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 would love to play Richard III. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it. "

" I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes. "

" Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing. "

" 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. "

" Will Ferrell is just about the nicest guy - anyone can tell you that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment. "

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" 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. "

" I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s. "

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" 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. "

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" When people are infected by my charm, they don't see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting. "

" People have the strangest ideas about dwarves. "