Peter Dinklage Quotes

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

Class clowns become actors.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.

I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back.

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

If you're in scenes with a guy you know really well in a comedy, you tend to crack each other up too much.

I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.

The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.

On 'Sunny,' the main actors are adults, and we're all friends, and we all have the same sense of humor, so there's a lot of improvising.