Quotes by Dominic Monaghan

Being an actor's about imagination and you have to keep extending your imagination.
– Dominic Monaghan
College was a huge time for me to grow and try out new things. I mean, I guess I really started to embrace - by that point- being an individual.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.
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I have a huge issue with people pushing religious beliefs on to me as well. I guess, to a certain extent, I pretty much know who I am.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
I hold Treebeard [In The Lord of the Rings] quite close to my heart. He takes things very slowly - he knows that he'll live forever, so he can spend as much time as he wants mulling things over. I'm turned on by that because I don't think that way.
– Dominic Monaghan
I mean, anyone with any kind of un-P.C. opinions really makes me pretty ill. I'm not that keen on listening to any kind of racist or homophobic or sexist kind of jabs. I don't think they really have any place in our generation.
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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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
I would like to be remembered as someone who could make people laugh. I would just like to be remembered really.
– Dominic Monaghan
I'd always be the kid up singing and dancing and telling jokes and fooling around, and high energy. I must have been a nightmare for my parents.
– Dominic Monaghan
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!
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
When I was a kid, we would travel to England in our car, from Germany, and listen to storybook tapes and one of them was the Hobbit. So we were aware of Bilbo and Gandalf and all that kind of stuff.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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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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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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.
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My parents are pretty cool people.
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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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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.
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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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
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.
– Dominic Monaghan
I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.
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I hope to be an actor and never retire.
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I have a lot of respect for marriage.
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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.
– Dominic Monaghan