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" As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You want your privacy as a human being. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus. "

" I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me a bottle as a gift. I was thinking we should totally put this on the market. You know how Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have signature perfumes and make a mint? I'm thinking this cologne could be my ticket to fortune. "

" I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle. "

" I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!' "

" We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long. "

" 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. "

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

" I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete. "

" It is hard working with animals, I've got to say. "

" I would love to play Richard III. "

" 'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia. "