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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. "

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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. "

" 'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia. "

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

" I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time. "

" I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it. "

" As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. "

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

" Will Ferrell is just about the nicest guy - anyone can tell you that. "

" Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore. "

" Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good. "

" What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a big cynical side to me. "

" 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'm always attracted to anti-hero roles. "

" 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. "

" 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 dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot. "

" I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s. "

" With a lot of shows, what you'll see happen is they start off really well, and they're very original, but they become sort of a version of themselves. They stand outside the show... they become a cliche of the show they once were. That's the whole 'jumping the shark' thing. "

" Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment. "

" The leads are often the boring part. "

" 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? "