Peter Dinklage Quotes

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.

Actors are terrible at overthinking things before they turn up to work, and they decide on a way they're going to do it, and then it's hard to break them out of it.

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.

For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I want to try.'

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

I never do any research for my roles.

I think the best actors do both. I think they fulfill what you want them to do, in terms of the vision for the whole piece. And then they always bring something that does surprise you and shock you.

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.