You want your privacy as a human being.

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.

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

Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me a bottle as a gift. I was thinking we should totally put this on the market. You know how Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have signature perfumes and make a mint? I'm thinking this cologne could be my ticket to fortune.

Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.

'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man.

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

I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

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

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

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

The leads are often the boring part.

I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.

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

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

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.

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.

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