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" Films are fun, but life is much richer. "
John Rhys-Davies
Life
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" '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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. "
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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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" Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up! "
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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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" 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 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'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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" I love a good safari. "
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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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" 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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" As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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