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I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

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

Peter Dinklage

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.

Peter Dinklage

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.

Peter Dinklage

'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.

Peter Dinklage

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.

Peter Dinklage

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.

Peter Dinklage

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?

Peter Dinklage

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

Peter Dinklage

I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete.

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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'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.

Peter Dinklage

People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

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I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.

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

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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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I would love to play Richard III.

Peter Dinklage

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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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.

Peter Dinklage

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.

Peter Dinklage

People's personalities get tweaked at weddings.

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I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

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The leads are often the boring part.

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I saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need.

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I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

Peter Dinklage

Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.

Peter Dinklage

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

Peter Dinklage

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.

Peter Dinklage

'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.

Peter Dinklage

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

Peter Dinklage

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

Peter Dinklage

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Peter Dinklage

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.

Peter Dinklage

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

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I never know where women are coming from.

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