John Rhys-Davies Quotes

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

John Rhys-Davies

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• I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Mysterious

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Food
  • Language

• I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Family
  • Home

• As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • People
  • Life
  • Single

• With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Today
  • Knowledge
  • Wind

• I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • Taken
  • Always

• Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Real
  • Question
  • Answers

• A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Game
  • Team

• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Strength
  • Temptation

• The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Back
  • Talk

• It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Know
  • Me
  • Kind

• All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Done
  • Path
  • Innocent

• Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • God

• It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to create value and jobs for these United States.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Value

• I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

  

  Ned Beauman

• Climate change is a reality.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Reality

• Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Honor

• Do one thing today that scares you - and you already know what that is! - and go do it. Even if you just make one step toward it, it will help you look at the world differently.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • World
  • Help
  • Today

• I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

  

  Kirstie Alley

• You have to just do your thing. As long as you don't hurt anybody along the way.

  

  Heidi Klum
  • Way
  • Hurt
  • Do Things

• The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

  

  John Rhys-Davies