Dominic Monaghan Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

I think everyone's a geek in some way.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I love animals. I love being around them.

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

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

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

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.

I love having the opportunity to surf.

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

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.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

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.

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.

I have a lot of respect for marriage.

I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

My job, at the very least, doesn't change at all.

My best takes aren't necessarily take five or take six. My best takes are usually take two.

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 don't say anything unintentionally.

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

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

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

No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.

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

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

My favorite movie of all time is probably Apocalypse Now.

If you pay a little bit of attention to something, and then let it go, and then come back to it, and then pay a little bit of attention to something, that's nice and healthy.

My parents are pretty cool people.