Quotes from Peter Dinklage

I would love to play Richard III.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

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.

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

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 was hard doing scenes with Bobby Cannavale because I would break up laughing because he's so funny.

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've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings.

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

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

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

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

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.

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.

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.

People's personalities get tweaked at weddings.

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

I have a big cynical side to me.

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.

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

I'm on 'Game Of Thrones,' and every time we have someone new coming on our show, we welcome them with open arms and get revitalised by this new presence. Then we kill them off very quickly.

Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.