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" 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! "
Dominic Monaghan
Character
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People
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" I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me. "
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Constantly
" Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work. "
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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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" 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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Mouth
" I hope to be an actor and never retire. "
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Hope
" 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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Need
People
" My favorite movie of all time is probably 'Apocalypse Now.' "
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Apocalypse
Favorite
" I don't tend to go out that much. "
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Much
Out
" I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way. "
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Just
" 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
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Clothes
Home
" 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. "
Dominic Monaghan
Career
Choice
History
" 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. "
Dominic Monaghan
Money
Society
Think
" 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
Laugh
Kind
Enjoy
" My parents are pretty cool people. "
Dominic Monaghan
Cool
Pretty
People
" 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. "
Dominic Monaghan
Relationships
Meat
Mad
" 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
Place
Travel
Me
" I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. "
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Class
Used
Front
" 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. "
Dominic Monaghan
Street
Black
Find
" 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. "
Dominic Monaghan
Care
Think
People
" I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay. "
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You
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Find
" 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. "
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Change
Done
You
" Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy. "
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Drives
Me
Nonsense
" 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. "
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Day
Face
Week
" 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. "
Dominic Monaghan
Care
School
Think
" 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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Think
New
Kid
" I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director. "
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Projects
Three
Director
" Television is face acting, and film is eye acting. "
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Television
Acting
Eye
" 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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Me
Know
Enough
" 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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