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All Quotes by author - John Rhys-Davies

" Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up! "

" 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. "

" Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. "

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" As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective. "

" A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books. "

" Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment. "

" 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. "

" Films are fun, but life is much richer. "

" Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil. "

" 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. "

" How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script? "

" I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible. "

" I can't give a soundbite for love or money. "

" 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. "

" I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. "

" I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish. "

" 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. "

" If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard. "

" 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. "

" If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up. "

" If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes. "

" I hate being out of work! "

" I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society. "

" I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. "

" I love a good safari. "

" I'm a little smarter than most. "

" 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. "

" 'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves. "

" Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. "

" In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us. "

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