Peter Dinklage Quotes

I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

Even the worst job has its benefits and so does being a professional literary agent, and - I know I said this at the time but I still believe it - the worst job is the one that you know is wrong for you, but you still do it. You're afraid to quit.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them.

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

I did not stay at the 'Today' show because of money. I think there are other ways to make money.

I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that's what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don't like because they don't have any other options.

I don't want to have to be a teacher so I can be a comedian.

There have been films I have said no to and there are roles that I wish I had done.

I could be earning a lot of money as a consultant, or gone higher in education.

To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.

Good shows have to get made in the first place... The regular ones don't excite me as an actor but at the end of the day, I have to work to earn my bread and butter.