Peter Dinklage

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

“I never know where women are coming from.”

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

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

“I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“I'm recognized, let me put it that way.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.'”

“It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.”

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

“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 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.”

“You want your privacy as a human being.”

“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.”

“We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species.”

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