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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
When people are infected by my charm, they don't see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting.
'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia.
I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
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.
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.
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
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.
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 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.
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
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 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.
Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.
George Martin is an incredible writer.
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 have a big cynical side to me.
People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.
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.
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 don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
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.
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.
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.
Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy.
I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.
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.
'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.
As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.
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 was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.
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.
I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings.
I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.
That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?
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.
I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.
The leads are often the boring part.
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.
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.
We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.
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.
I'm a private person in many ways.
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 have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'
I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.
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.
I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.
Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing.
Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.
Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.
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.
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'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.
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