Peter Dinklage

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

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

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

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 have a big cynical side to me.

A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.

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

The leads are often the boring part.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

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.

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'm a private person in many ways.