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" I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!' "
Peter Dinklage
World
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" Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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" Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious. "
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" Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus. "
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" I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like. "
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" 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. "
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" Will Ferrell is just about the nicest guy - anyone can tell you that. "
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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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" The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you. "
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" 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. "
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" Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice. "
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" I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television. "
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" 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. "
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" When people are infected by my charm, they don't see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting. "
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" Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good. "
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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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" 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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" Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that. "
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" I'm recognized, let me put it that way. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl. "
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" Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery. "
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" I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun. "
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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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" 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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