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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. "
Peter Dinklage
Money
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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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" 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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" I would love to play Richard III. "
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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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" 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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" I'm recognized, let me put it that way. "
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" Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.' "
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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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" You'd be surprised how condescending people can be. "
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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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" 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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You
" Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security. "
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OK
" I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete. "
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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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" You want your privacy as a human being. "
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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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" 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 never lived in an abandoned railroad station. "
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" As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. "
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" I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before. "
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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 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. "
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" I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl. "
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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 should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot. "
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