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" 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. "
Peter Dinklage
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" I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that? "
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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'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. "
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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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" Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious. "
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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 am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it. "
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" 'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil. "
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" I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles. "
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" 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? "
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" People have the strangest ideas about dwarves. "
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" The leads are often the boring part. "
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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 like the busted-nose look. I think it's a good look for me. "
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" As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. "
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" Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" It was hard doing scenes with Bobby Cannavale because I would break up laughing because he's so funny. "
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" Since I've joined 'Game of Thrones,' it's been such a pleasure. "
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" I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. "
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" 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. "
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" What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl. "
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" I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on. "
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" I never know where women are coming from. "
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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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" 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. "
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