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
Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.
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.
I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.
I have a lot of respect for marriage.
Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My parents are pretty cool people.
I hope to be an actor and never retire.
I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.
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.
I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.
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.
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.
I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.
My ultimate search has been for a muse.
I think everyone's a geek in some way.
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.
I don't tend to go out that much.
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.
My favorite movie of all time is probably 'Apocalypse Now.'
We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.
I grew up a massive Beatles fan.
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.
Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.
Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.
When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.
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.
I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.
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.
If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.
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.
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.
I love having the opportunity to surf.
I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
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.
I don't say anything unintentionally.
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.
Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.
I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.
My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.
I like islands.
I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
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.
I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.
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.
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.
