Peter Dinklage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Dog #Drinking #Book
I hate that word â€” 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work
-- Peter Dinklage

#Hate #Hard Work #Lucky
Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy whoâ€™s freezing his ***** off back in Brooklyn.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Hard Work #Guy #Brooklyn
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Who I Am #Enough #Accepting
I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog â€” 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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Dog #Hurt #Cat
I hate that word - 'lucky' ...
-- Peter Dinklage

#Hate #Lucky #I Hate
I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Cereal #Sandwiches #Dresses
Any swagger is just defense. When youre 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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Growing Up #Dark #People
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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#People #Lucky #Reason
Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Pain #Home #Animal
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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Fun #Character #Play
George Martin is an incredible writer.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Incredibles
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Lonely #Actors #Kind
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Games #Hbo #Thrones
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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Strong #Writing #Hbo
I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Graduation #Long #Asking
Call me Elf......one more time!
-- Peter Dinklage

#More Time #Call Me
I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Fun #Guy #Sidelines
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Ridicule #Can Not
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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#College #Giving #Littles
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

#Actors #Done #Shooting
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

#Thinking #Personality #Actors
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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Actors #Directors #Kind
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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Animal #Pet #Want
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Character #Thinking #Years
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

#Fun #Successful #Thinking
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Railroads #Abandoned
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.
-- Peter Dinklage

#Jobs #Character #Play

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