Quotes by Dominic Monaghan

“I would like to be remembered as someone who could make people laugh. I would just like to be remembered really.”

“I dont believe in underwear. I think it crushes your artistic integrity.”

“I have a huge issue with people pushing religious beliefs on to me as well. I guess, to a certain extent, I pretty much know who I am.”

“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.”

“I wont miss having to stand for two hours at 4:30 a.m. and having freezing cold glue applied to my feet. I wont miss two-hour drives to work or long, long, long, days sitting in my trailer waiting... waiting... waiting. I wont miss glue in my ears. But I would do it all again tomorrow.”

“College was a huge time for me to grow and try out new things. I mean, I guess I really started to embrace - by that point- being an individual.”

“Id always be the kid up singing and dancing and telling jokes and fooling around, and high energy. I must have been a nightmare for my parents.”

“I used to get quite upset that Id make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years wed move and go and live somewhere else, and youd have to say goodbye to that person.”

“Being an actors about imagination and you have to keep extending your imagination.”

“Obviously, the characters have no real showering system on the island... I think Ive only changed (clothing), like, three times on the island. Were stinky, but we live with it. Its part of the charm of the Lost cast. You bring visitors on set, and theyre very excited to see everyone - until they get within three or four feet. Then they realize we all stink.”

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all of my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as an occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cow disease.

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

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 didnt care.

The term geek for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you dont care if people think its not cool. You think its cool and thats your thing.

I used to get quite upset that Id make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years wed move and go and live somewhere else, and youd have to say goodbye to that person.

What Im attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe theyll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I dont need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

My brothers a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

Ive 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.

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. Theyd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.