Peter Dinklage Quotes

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

I like to joke that if I had a dollar for everybody who slapped me on the back and said, 'Hey Jeb, you're all set,' I'd be retired now.

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

I don't have any expectations.

I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.

In order to make any kind of living, you cannot afford to say no. If anything comes up, you've got to take it; you've got to grab it with both hands because security is really not there.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree.

It's really easy sometimes to get comfortable on a set and get into the groove and think it's all make-believe so nothing bad can happen.

I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.

If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security.

I try to look at things in a positive light, but not everything ends up turning out positive or perfect.