Top 66 Peter Dinklage Quotes

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.

When people are infected by my charm, they don’t see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting.

I have a big cynical side to me.

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

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

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.

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I like the busted-nose look. I think it’s a good look for me.

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?

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.

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.

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

Since I’ve joined ‘Game of Thrones,’ it’s been such a pleasure.

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

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

I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It’s kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

I think ‘No’ is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger… I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.

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.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

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.

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.

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

Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

We’re not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

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

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 knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He’s a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.

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

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

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

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

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

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.

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.

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.

You want your privacy as a human being.

I’m always attracted to anti-hero roles.

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

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That’s about as exciting as my life gets.

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.

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

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I’m done with that.

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.

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 have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

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.

I never know where women are coming from.

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.

People’s personalities get tweaked at weddings.

I don’t like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I’m a dwarf.

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

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.

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I’m seemingly O.K. with it, I can’t preach how to be O.K. with it. I don’t think I still am O.K. with it. There’s days when I’m not.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Friends don’t care about issues like dwarf tossing.