Top 62 Dominic Monaghan Quotes
#1. I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.
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#2. 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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#4. I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.
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#5. I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all of my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as an occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cow disease.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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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#8. When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.
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#9. 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.
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#10. I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
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#12. I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.
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#13. 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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#14. I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.
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#15. Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.
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#16. We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. No one ever told me when I was growing up that make-up and skirts were just for girls. If you're confident and you own it, [the other kids] are fine with it ... I've always supported the lifestyle that I will do what I please and deal with it.
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#21. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#28. If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.
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#29. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#34. 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.
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#35. 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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#36. I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.
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#39. 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.
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#40. I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.
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#41. 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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#42. I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.
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#43. 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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#48. Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.
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#50. 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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#51. I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. 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.
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#55. 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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#56. I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.
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#57. 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.
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#58. I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.
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#59. I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.
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#62. 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.
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