Peter Dinklage

“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.”

“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 d...”

“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.”

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

“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 wat...”

“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 su...”

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“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...”

“You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 thi...”

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

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

“Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing.”

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