Dominic Monaghan Quotations

When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.

Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.

I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.

I think everyone's a geek in some way.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

I don't say anything unintentionally.

I don't tend to go out that much.

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

I have a lot of respect for marriage.

I love having the opportunity to surf.

I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

My parents are pretty cool people.

My favorite movie of all time is probably 'Apocalypse Now.'

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

No one ever told me when I was growing up that make-up and skirts were just for girls. If you're confident and you own it, [the other kids] are fine with it...I've always supported the lifestyle that I will do what I please and deal with it.

I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh

I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting.

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

I really liked German food. And it's very clean.. It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well.. the garbage.

Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.

I won't miss having to stand for two hours at 4:30 a.m. and have freezing cold glue applied to my feet. I won't miss two-hour drives to work or long, long, long days sitting in my trailer waiting...waiting...waiting. I won't miss one day off a week. I won't miss glue in my ears. But I would do it all again tomorrow.

I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us.

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

I'm turned on by diversity. I'm turned on by things that are different. I like different animals, I like different ways of travel, and I like different people.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

The number one thing for me is diversity. I always want to ensure that people can't put me in a box. I can play a bad guy, I can play a good guy, I can play a good bad guy, I can be the host of a show, I can be serious, and I can be funny.

Life has a way of kicking you in the ass... or smearing chocolate on your bum.

Obviously, the characters have no real showering system on the island... I think I've only changed (clothing), like, three times on the island. We're stinky, but we live with it. It's part of the charm of the Lost cast. You bring visitors on set, and they're very excited to see everyone - until they get within three or four feet. Then they realize we all stink.

I don't believe in underwear. I think it crushes your artistic integrity.

Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

I was kind of like the cheeky kid in school. Nothing too malicious... Nothing too nasty... I never really got into too many fights, but I was the practical joker.

Just cos I'm an actor, there's a lot of other stuff that I really like to do. Definitely writing and things like that.

I think deep down I've always wanted to be an actor. It was the one thing in school that I was undoubtedly enthusiastic about and good at. I coasted along being good at German, Geography, English and football but there wasn't anything that I could really call my thing, my niche.

I won't miss having to stand for two hours at 4:30 a.m. and having freezing cold glue applied to my feet. I won't miss two-hour drives to work or long, long, long, days sitting in my trailer waiting... waiting... waiting. I won't miss glue in my ears. But I would do it all again tomorrow.

Went to the beach for the day and wrote as much as I could about this incredible experience and where my life seemed to be taking me, etc. I fell asleep, and when I woke up the papers were blowing down the beach and into the water. I sat up and watched until I couldn't see one piece of paper left. I drove home and felt happy.

Went home, tried to make cake, but the oven broke so I ate raw cake mix, watched TV, felt sick, and went to Billy's.

I would like to be remembered as someone who could make people laugh. I would just like to be remembered really.

Being an actor's about imagination and you have to keep extending your imagination.

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.

Any innacuracies were probably due to copius amounts of alcohol.

They're boxer shorts. Make sure you get that right. I don't want anyone thinking I wear anything else.

It's acted by a group of 16 or 17 very talented actors, and no one really stands above anyone else.

It's not just my tongue that's bad. My spleen once stole 100 dollars from 7/11.

It's great, he got so much going on, Gollum. Sometimes he looks old, sometime he looks young, sometimes he looks like a frog, sometimes he looks like a dog, sometimes he looks like a monkey, sometimes he looks like a bus.

I mean, theater acting for me is the true form. It's the real place where you learn, the place where you practice, the place where you can take risks and try things out, and I think what film acting is when you've perfected what you're doing and it's a polished piece of work, then you do it on film.

If my house caught fire I would save myself and anyone in there and I would try and save all the diaries and letters that I have collected as everything else is replaceable. And I would sit on the lawn watching my house burn cherry red and record it in my diary.

I like to have a tidy kitchen but I am not too bothered about my room or living room etc. My theory is that when it's untidy I feel comfortable, like it feels lived in, and its only gonna get untidy if you tidy it so wait, wait, wait.