John Rhys-Davies Quotes
If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
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People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.
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If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.
