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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. "

John Rhys-Davies

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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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" 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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" I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much. "

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

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

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" When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things. "

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" I'm a little smarter than most. "

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

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" No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people. "

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" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

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" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "

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" To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion. "

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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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" 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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" I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career. "

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" It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it. "

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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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" I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. "

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

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" People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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