Peter Dinklage Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Graduation, Long

  60 Copy quote

• I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

  Peter Dinklage

  Hate, Hard Work, Lucky

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• [on his dwarfism] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs.

  Peter Dinklage

  Wall, Bitter, Problem

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

  Peter Dinklage

  Ridicule, Can Not, Objects

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

  Peter Dinklage

  Who I Am, Enough, Accepting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  29 Copy quote

• I love 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.

  Peter Dinklage

  Dog, Hurt, Cat

  24 Copy quote

• Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.

  Peter Dinklage

  Hard Work, Guy, Lucky

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel really lucky, although I hate that word - 'lucky'.

  Peter Dinklage

  Hate, Lucky, I Hate

  "Peter Dinklage Was Smart to Say No" by Dan Kois, www.nytimes.com. March 29, 2012.

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

• I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

  Peter Dinklage

  Cereal, Dresses, Sandwiches

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Call me Elf......one more time!

  Peter Dinklage

  More Time, Call Me, Buddy

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• I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.

  Peter Dinklage

  Fun, Guy, Sidelines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• George Martin is an incredible writer.

  Peter Dinklage

  Incredibles

  "'Game of Thrones': Peter Dinklage on Returning for Season 2 and Those Tyrion Fan Videos" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 12, 2011.

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• 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

  Directors, Actors, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Peter Dinklage

  Lonely, Actors, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• 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, Cameras

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• 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

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

  Peter Dinklage

  Railroads, Abandoned, Stations

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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