Dominic Monaghan Quotes (36 Quotes)

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.

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.

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.

It's not just my tongue that's bad. My spleen once stole 100 dollars from 711.

Life has a way of kicking you in the ass... or smearing chocolate on your bum.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

And the body count will grow. The Season 2 cliffhanger, ... sets it up so that all of us could conceivably die.

It's acted by a group of 16 or 17 very talented actors, and no one really stands above anyone else.

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.

I don't believe in underwear. I think it crushes your artistic integrity.

I would like to be remembered as someone who could make people laugh. I would just like to be remembered really.

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.

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.

If my house caught fire I would save myself and anyone in there and I would try and save all the diaries and letters that I have collected as everything else is replaceable. And I would sit on the lawn watching my house burn cherry red and record it in my

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.

Being an actor's about imagination and you have to keep extending your imagination.

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

Any innacuracies were probably due to copius amounts of alcohol.

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.

I won't miss having to stand for two hours at 430 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.

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.

Obviously, the characters have no real showering system on the island... I think I've only changed (clothing), like, three times on the island. We're stinky, but we live with it. It's part of the charm of the Lost cast. You bring visitors on set, and they're very excited to see everyone - until they get within three or four feet. Then they realize we all stink.

They're boxer shorts. Make sure you get that right. I don't want anyone thinking I wear anything else.

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.

I like to have a tidy kitchen but I am not too bothered about my room or living room etc. My theory is that when it's untidy I feel comfortable, like it feels lived in, and its only gonna get untidy if you tidy it so wait, wait, wait.

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

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.

Went to the beach for the day and wrote as much as I could about this incredible experience and where my life seemed to be taking me, etc. I fell asleep, and when I woke up the papers were blowing down the beach and into the water. I sat up and watched until I couldn't see one piece of paper left. I drove home and felt happy.

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.

Went home, tried to make cake, but the oven broke so I ate raw cake mix, watched TV, felt sick, and went to Billy's.

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

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.