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" I hope to be an actor and never retire. "
Dominic Monaghan
Retire
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Hope
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. "
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" Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy. "
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" I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there. "
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" When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in. "
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" 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. "
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" Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes. "
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" 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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" If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history. "
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Choice
History
" 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! "
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" I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work. "
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" 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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" Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea. "
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" 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. "
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" What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything. "
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" I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that. "
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" 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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" If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli. "
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" Television is face acting, and film is eye acting. "
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" I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths. "
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" 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. "
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You
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" 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. "
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Years
" 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. "
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" I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting. "
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