Dominic Monaghan

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

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. ”

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. ”

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do. ”

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”