Being an actor's about imagination and you have to keep extending your imagination.
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.
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.
I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.
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 mean, theater acting for me is the true form. It's the real place where you learn, the place where you practice, the place where you can take risks and try things out, and I think what film acting is when you've perfected what you're doing and it's a polished piece of work, then you do it on film.
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 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.
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.
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
I would like to be remembered as someone who could make people laugh. I would just like to be remembered really.
I'd 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'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!
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.
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.
If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.
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.
When I was a kid, we would travel to England in our car, from Germany, and listen to storybook tapes and one of them was the Hobbit. So we were aware of Bilbo and Gandalf and all that kind of stuff.
Dominic says that getting to play Charlie on Lost is “an amazing blessing.”
One way Dominic escapes the paparazzi when they are after him, trying to get a picture, is by going into the library and reading books for hours so they'll get bored and give up.
Dominic and Viggo Mortensen went to the movie Troy together and bought some extra tickets. They gave them out to people and told them they were helping Orlando Bloom.
According to Dominic, he does not care too much if his character Charlie was killed off of LOST if the reason or story was really impressive and really good.
Dominic wrote and recorded the vocals for the tracks "Shadow" and "Maybe", and co-wrote and recorded "Half Fling" with Elijah Wood on the album Pandemoniumfromamerica.
Dominic was the tallest of the main four actors who played hobbits in Lord of the Rings.
Dominic admitted to once having a "man-crush" on his surfing instructor.
Dominic attended St. Anne's RC High School (his uncle also taught there and later became headmaster after he graduated).
Out of the three English actors on the show Lost, Dominic is the only one to actually play an English person.
Dominic did karate as a child.
Dominic loves insects.
Dominic is 5'7" tall.
According to The Toronto Star (December 12, 2003), Dom fell so in love with surfing that he moved to Los Angeles and found a place to live 25 minutes from a beach.
Dominic's favorite bands are Radiohead, Coldplay, The Beatles, and The Smiths.
Dominic used to be roommates with Mackenzie Astin, the brother of his co-star from Lord of the Rings, Sean Astin. He now lives on his own in Hollywood Hills.
Dominic attended Aquinas College, a Catholic sixth form school in Stockport.
Dominic's favorite movie is Star Wars.
Dominic lists his hero as Beatles singer and song-writer John Lennon.
Dominic, always the environmentalist, sponsors a forest in India.
Dominic likes to keep a journal.
Dominic is a video game fanatic and often hosts gaming parties at his house.
Dominic was born and raised in Berlin, before moving to England. He speaks German fluently.
Dominic is an avid fan of the Manchester United Football Club.
Dominic celebrated and got drunk the night he found out he got the part of "Merry" in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
When Dominic was a child, he didn't have cats or dogs as pets because he was allergic. Instead, he had snakes and insects. He used to keep a black widow spider named Witchitar as a pet. He also owns an albino garter snake named Blink, and he once had a leaf mantis named Gizmo.
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