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" Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up! "
John Rhys-Davies
Up
You
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" I'm a little smarter than most. "
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" To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9', or something like that, is... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything. "
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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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" 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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" Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. "
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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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" Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. "
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" I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. "
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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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" 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 was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with. "
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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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" Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful. "
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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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" The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors. "
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" Films are fun, but life is much richer. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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