Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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'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.

I love animals. I love being around them.

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 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 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.

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

I love having the opportunity to surf.

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.

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

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

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

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 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.

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.

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

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.

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.