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" Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. "
John Rhys-Davies
Me
Science
Science Fiction
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" There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. "
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" I love a good safari. "
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" 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. "
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" When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor. "
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" There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold. "
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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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" Unkindness is quite a major sin. "
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" I hate being out of work! "
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" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "
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" Films are fun, but life is much richer. "
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" If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes. "
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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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" 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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" It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it. "
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" If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up. "
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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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" When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in. "
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" 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. "
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" With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. "
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" 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. "
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" The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer. "
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" Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. "
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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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" 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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