Dominic Monaghan Quotes

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

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

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

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 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.

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

I think everyone's a geek in some way.

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

I don't tend to go out that much.

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

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

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

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

I don't say anything unintentionally.

Human beings have a bunch of different dimensions, so even if you're playing someone who you think maybe the audience might not like, might not be going for, you still have to give them the dimensions to make them a real human, otherwise there's no point.

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

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!

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

One of my jobs as an actor, regardless of who I play - even if I'm playing a despicable character - is to make people think that that character could exist, that he's real, and the way to do that is to make him believable. He doesn't have to be likable or charming, but he just has to be believable. That is someone who I could see on a bus. That is someone who I could walk past in the street.

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.

All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.

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

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 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.

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