Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve. Dominic Monaghan More Quotes by Dominic Monaghan More Quotes From Dominic Monaghan No one ever told me when I was growing up that make-up and skirts were just for girls. If you're confident and you own it, [the other kids] are fine with it...I've always supported the lifestyle that I will do what I please and deal with it. Dominic Monaghan growing-up girl kids 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 camping track people 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. Dominic Monaghan faces two firsts 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. Dominic Monaghan country kids travel I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us. Dominic Monaghan together-again curiosity trying 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. Dominic Monaghan listening house brain 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. Dominic Monaghan college home jobs 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. Dominic Monaghan flip kids thinking 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. Dominic Monaghan change needs thinking 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. Dominic Monaghan guy mouths quiet 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. Dominic Monaghan couple jobs people I won't miss having to stand for two hours at 4:30 a.m. and have 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 one day off a week. I won't miss glue in my ears. But I would do it all again tomorrow. Dominic Monaghan feet two long 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 Dominic Monaghan dad mom laughing I hope to be an actor and never retire. Dominic Monaghan retiring actors I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting. Dominic Monaghan everyday exciting love-is 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. Dominic Monaghan character years thinking 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. Dominic Monaghan garbage waste country 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. Dominic Monaghan snakes pet people
