Quotes from Peter Dinklage

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 successful, it's because the characters become stagnant.

You want your privacy as a human being.

I'm a private person in many ways.

I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.

A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

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

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.

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.

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

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

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.

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

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

'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia.

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.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

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.

I never know where women are coming from.

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.

Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'

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.