John Rhys-Davies Quotes
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Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.
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If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.
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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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I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.
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I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.
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My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
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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've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.
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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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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 used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.
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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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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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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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People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.
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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 hate being out of work!
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'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie.
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Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.
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When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.
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Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.
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As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.
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When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.
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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.