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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO. "

" It was hard doing scenes with Bobby Cannavale because I would break up laughing because he's so funny. "

" People have the strangest ideas about dwarves. "

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

" 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. "

" People's personalities get tweaked at weddings. "

" George Martin is an incredible writer. "

" Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.' "

" 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. "

" A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them. "

" A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers. "

" 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. "

" I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television. "

" 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. "

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

" The reason I like 'Breaking Bad,' which is still probably my favorite show, is Walter White. You watch him transform, and that's so fascinating. And I think. a lot of TV shows that aren't successful, it's because the characters become stagnant. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm recognized, let me put it that way. "

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

" 'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man. "

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