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Death at a Funeral...
"Although the part was written for a normal-size person, I always thought he was a terrific character
actor. A terrific actor, period. And so I met him in London and didn't read him because I knew his work. I said, 'I
know, Peter, to the audience this is going to be a sex-dwarf joke, for the first 15 minutes. I know it and you know it. But
I believe, with the kind of actor you are, people eventually will overlook that and start getting involved with the story,'
and I think that's what happens." - Frank Oz, Director, interviewed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Dinklage, who had a wonderfully somber performance in The Station Agent, is both despicable
and hilarious as the stranger who has come to crash the funeral." - Matthew F. Newlin, Playbackstl.com
"It's not easy to be 4-foot-5 and one of the world's best comic actors, but Peter Dinklage manages.
Dinklage, so good in "The Station Agent," is the saving grace of this low-key farce..." - Sean P. Means, Salt Lake Tribune
"This funeral has Peter Dinklage (as Peter), who is becoming my favorite go-to actor for any movie that
needs someone to go to...he has that ability to make you brighten up and take notice, because with such a person on the screen
something interesting is bound to happen. Dinklage can look handsome in that menacing way that suggests he's about to dine
out on your fondest hopes and dreams." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Penelope...
"Peter Dinklage, as a reporter out to finally reveal the truth about Penelope, is heartfelt as a man
with his own physical differences pursuing a young woman rumored to be a freak of nature." - Kim Voynar, Cinematical.com
"Catherine O'Hara and Peter Dinklage steal the film, as if they could do
Lassie...
"It's quite difficult to find a way of portraying a character whose decency and moral strength is kind of their quality
because it's a hard thing to dramatize...and I felt somehow ... that Peter gets there for me, and I felt -- lazily if you
like -- that if cast him I would be able to get that across without having to do a lot of complicated writing to do it."
- Charles Sturridge, interviewed for Zap2It.com
"The dog's meeting with traveling puppeteer Rowlie (Peter Dinklage) is probably the most memorable and affecting
event, mainly because of Dinklage's nuanced take on a man whose best friend in the world truly is his dog Toots..." -
Hahn Nguyen, Zap2It.com
"Lassie's" most memorable performance is supplied by Dinklage, the powerful little actor of "The Station Agent" and
"Find Me Guilty," in Edmund Gwenn's old role of the gypsy showman Rowlie. Dinklage's scenes in his horse-and-carriage caravan
and the feeling he gives of the special world of outsiders and artists have a discretion and subtlety that break your heart."
- Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"The dramatic highlight of the Odyssean journey is a heart-piercing passage with a gypsy traveler (Peter Dinklage)
specifically designed to give your tear ducts a workout." - Nathaniel Bell, San Bernadino Sun
"But the biggest standout is Peter Dinklage who plays a traveling puppeteer. Of all Lassie encounters, he is
the most gentle and deserving of Lassie’s brief attention. Dinklage’s moments onscreen are the
most entertaining and most tearjerking – makes you want a whole movie about his character. Dinklage has been turning
in great work for years now, but in this film he has a chance finally to be appreciated." - Sasha Stone, Santa Monica Mirror
The Baxter...
There's also a hilarious supporting performance by Peter Dinklage, as a wedding planner named Benson Hedges...Dinklage,
who you may remember from "The Station Agent" (and if you don't, that is the next movie you should rent) plays a gay dwarf
who not only steals every scene he's in, but pawns it and buys more scenes and walks off with them, too." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Surviving Eden...
"Best of all is Peter Dinklage, who plays Dennis' roommate Sterno, the guy who gets him into the show. Dinklage's
presence and wit would let him steal all of his scenes, even without his 4-foot-5-inch stature; he comes across at times like
a pint-size mix of Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Nicholson." - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Elf...
"Peter Dinklage, who played the dwarf in "The Station Agent," has a brief but sublime scene in which he cuts right
to the bottom line of elfhood." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Station Agent...
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