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.

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

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

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.

[on his dwarfism] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs.

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

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.