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" I hate being out of work! "

John Rhys-Davies

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" The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang is essentially hydrogen and then helium. And that's what combusts in stars. Finally, stars implode, and they build heavier elements out of that. And those heavier elements are reconstituted in the heart of other stars, eventually. "

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

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

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

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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've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage. "

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