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Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ˈdɪŋklɪdʒ/; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor and film producer. Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, starring in a number of amateur stage productions. His film debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995) and his breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003). He has since appeared in Elf (2003), Find Me Guilty (2006), Underdog (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), the latter earning him his first Screen Actors Guild Award.

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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.

Actors, Directors, Kind, Writers

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

Fun, Guy, Playing, Sidelines

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.

Attract, Lucky, People, Reason, Say

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

Can Not, Object, Objects, Ridicule, Say

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.

Character, Characters, Fun, Heroic, Play

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.

Animal, Creatures, Named, Pet, Pets, Want

I hate that word - 'lucky'.

Hate, I Hate, Lucky, Word

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

Character, Television, Thinking, Years

Call me Elf. . . . . . one more time!

Buddy, Call, Call Me, Elf, More Time, Time

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

Actor, Actors, Kind, Lonely

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.

Graduation, Inspirational, Long, Telling, Waited

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

Fun, Successful, Thinking, Thing, Corner

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

Abandoned, Lived, Railroads, Station, Stations

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.

Character, Day, Jobs, Play, Wished

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.

Book, Dog, Drinking, Spend, Walking

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.

Freezing, Guy, Hard Work, Lucky, Whos

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.

Cameras, Introspective, Male, Personality, Quiet, Thinking

Any swagger is just defense. When youre 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.

Dark, Fame, Growing Up, People, Proudly, Swagger

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.

Pain, Home, Animal, Shocking, Homes, Abused

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

Hard Work, Hate, Lucky, Word, Work

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