Peter Dinklage
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Biography
Peter Hayden Dinklage is an American actor. Portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times.
"Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot."
"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."
"'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO."
"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."
"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."
"Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery."
"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."
"What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl."