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

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.

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.

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

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

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

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

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

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.

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

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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?