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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. "

Peter Dinklage

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" George Martin is an incredible writer. "

" 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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" 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. "

" It is hard working with animals, I've got to say. "

" 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. "

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

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" I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings. "

" I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!' "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. "

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

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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. "

" I'm a private person in many ways. "

" I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes. "

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

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" It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me. "

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Stone

" It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand. "