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" Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?' "
Peter Dinklage
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" My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor. "
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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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" 'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man. "
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" There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity. "
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" 'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia. "
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" I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings. "
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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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" I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. "
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" Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long. "
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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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" 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. "
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" As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. "
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" I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it. "
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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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" 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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" Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore. "
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" You'd be surprised how condescending people can be. "
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" I'm recognized, let me put it that way. "
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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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" They'll say, 'Oh, he's sexy,' but women still go for guys who are 6ft 2 ins. I don't believe any of it for a minute. "
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" Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment. "
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" Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus. "
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" 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. "
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" I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit. "
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" I like 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. "
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