Dominic Monaghan's Quotes

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 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.

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.

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'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'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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I think everyone's a geek in some way.

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

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

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

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

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

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

I don't say anything unintentionally.

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

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

I have a lot of respect for marriage.

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

I like islands.

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

I love having the opportunity to surf.

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