Dominic Monaghan Quotes
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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!
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I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.
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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.
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I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
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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.
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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.
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I can easily say "no" to a project if the script isn't great, but when the script is good, then I start asking the other questions. Who's going to direct it? Who's the creator? Who are the actors? When are we shooting? Where is it shooting? All that kind of stuff.
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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.
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I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.
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My parents are pretty cool people.
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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.
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My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.
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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.
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My favorite movie of all time is probably Apocalypse Now.
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My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.
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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.
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Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.
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I love animals. I love being around them.
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I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.
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I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.
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I love having the opportunity to surf.
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I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.
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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
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I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.
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I don't tend to go out that much.
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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.
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