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" 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. "

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" I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity. "

Peter Dinklage

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First

" People's personalities get tweaked at weddings. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm on 'Game Of Thrones,' and every time we have someone new coming on our show, we welcome them with open arms and get revitalised by this new presence. Then we kill them off very quickly. "

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

" 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. "

" I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun. "

Peter Dinklage

Playing

" My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office. "

" 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 often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself. "

" My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe. "

" 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. "

" I saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need. "

" Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious. "

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

" 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 think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

Peter Dinklage

Amazing

Horse

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

" Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?' "

Peter Dinklage

Really

Lord

" The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you. "

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