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

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" I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods. "

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

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

" Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice. "

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

" 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. "

" 'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO. "

" I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am. "

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

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

" I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader. "

" Since I've joined 'Game of Thrones,' it's been such a pleasure. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't. "

" 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. "

" You'd be surprised how condescending people can be. "

" I never know where women are coming from. "

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

" 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. "

" I like the busted-nose look. I think it's a good look for me. "

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

" 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. "