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

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

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

I like the busted-nose look. I think it's a good look for me.

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

Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment.

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd.

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

I have a big cynical side to me.

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.

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

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

Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

Will Ferrell is just about the nicest guy - anyone can tell you 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.

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

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.

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

Call me Elf ... one more time!

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

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

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

I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before.

Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy.

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

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.

When people are infected by my charm, they don't see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting.

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.

I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.

The leads are often the boring part.

I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

I saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted ... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need.

They'll say, 'Oh, he's sexy,' but women still go for guys who are 6ft 2 ins. I don't believe any of it for a minute.

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.

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

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

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

What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.

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.

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

I'm a private person in many ways.

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

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.

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

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.

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

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

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

I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.

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

The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you.

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

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

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

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

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

Since I've joined 'Game of Thrones,' it's been such a pleasure.

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.

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.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

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

I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.

I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.

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.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

I never know where women are coming from.

You want your privacy as a human being.

I would love to play Richard III.

I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete.

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

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

Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing.

I hate that word - 'lucky' ...

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

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

Raise the rest of your life to meet you.

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

I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.

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.

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.

People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.