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" I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much. "
John Rhys-Davies
Me
Worry
Too Much
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Films are fun, but life is much richer. "
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" I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage. "
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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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" My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales. "
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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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" '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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" If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes. "
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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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Hope
Best
" It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it. "
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Premise
People
" 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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" 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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Friends
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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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" 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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Out
Control
" 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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Same
Career
" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "
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Writer
Hook
Sometimes
" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "
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" Unkindness is quite a major sin. "
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Major
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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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" 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'm a little smarter than most. "
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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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" 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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Question
Questions
" 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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You
Without