Dominic Monaghan

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

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

“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'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.”

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

“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.”

“I love having the opportunity to surf.”

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

“My ultimate search has been for a muse.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”