Dominic Monaghan Quotes

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

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

— 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

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

— Dominic Monaghan

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

— Dominic Monaghan

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

— Dominic Monaghan

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

— 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

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

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— 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

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

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“I think everyone's a geek in some way.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“I don't say anything unintentionally.”

— Dominic Monaghan

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

— Dominic Monaghan

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

— 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

“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.”

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

— Dominic Monaghan

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

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“I have a lot of respect for marriage.”

— Dominic Monaghan

I love having the opportunity to surf.

— Dominic Monaghan

“I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“My parents are pretty cool people.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.”

— Dominic Monaghan

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.

— Dominic Monaghan

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

— Dominic Monaghan

“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 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

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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“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.”

— 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 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'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

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan

“Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.”

— 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

“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.”

— Dominic Monaghan