I can easily say "no" to a project if the script isn't great, but when the script is good, then I start asking the other questions. Who's going to direct it? Who's the creator? Who are the actors? When are we shooting? Where is it shooting? All that kind of stuff.

Dominic Monaghan

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I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

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underdog misunderstood fans

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

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electricity energy somewhere-else

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

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broccoli mum gun

All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.

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cages opportunity animal

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.

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play numbers people

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.

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animal two kids

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

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three way needs

If you pay a little bit of attention to something, and then let it go, and then come back to it, and then pay a little bit of attention to something, that's nice and healthy.

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let-it-go healthy nice

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.

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passion people thinking

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

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educate continuing stuff

I think everyone's a geek in some way.

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geek way thinking

Human beings have a bunch of different dimensions, so even if you're playing someone who you think maybe the audience might not like, might not be going for, you still have to give them the dimensions to make them a real human, otherwise there's no point.

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real giving thinking

I'm turned on by diversity. I'm turned on by things that are different. I like different animals, I like different ways of travel, and I like different people.

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diversity animal people

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.

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kids school thinking

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.

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cat dog sleep

I love animals. I love being around them.

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animal-love animal love-is

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.

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mad-cow-disease heartbroken meat

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

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muse has-beens ultimate

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.

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nice trying world

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.

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