John Rhys-Davies Quotes
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I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.
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Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.
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I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.
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Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.
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Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.
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We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.
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Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.
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People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.
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I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.
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My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
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Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
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Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.
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I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating.
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I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.
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When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.
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Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.
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When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.
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I hate being out of work!
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Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.
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How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script?
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I love a good safari.
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I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.
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I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
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Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.