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" If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes. "
John Rhys-Davies
You
Yes
Say
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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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" Films are fun, but life is much richer. "
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" Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment. "
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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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Up
You
Screw
" 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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Face
Find
" 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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World
" I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. "
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" 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
" Unkindness is quite a major sin. "
John Rhys-Davies
Quite
Major
Unkindness
" I hate being out of work! "
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Work
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Hate
" 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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Child
Yourself
" Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. "
John Rhys-Davies
Me
Science
Science Fiction
" 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. "
John Rhys-Davies
You
Successful
Succeed
" I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much. "
John Rhys-Davies
Me
Worry
Too Much
" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "
John Rhys-Davies
Writer
Hook
Sometimes
" Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you. "
John Rhys-Davies
Democracy
Joy
Me
" 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. "
John Rhys-Davies
Word
You
Without
" '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. "
John Rhys-Davies
Tough
Down
Through
" 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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You
Actor
End
" 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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Think
Enjoy
Live
" 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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Facts
History
Mother
" When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response. "
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You
Laughter
Walking
" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "
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Western
Having
Europeans
" 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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Two
World
Just
" People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy. "
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Become
Democracy
Parliament
" I love a good safari. "
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Love
Good
I Love
" I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. "
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Would
Hero
Heroes
" I'm a little smarter than most. "
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Most
Little
" No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people. "
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Without
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Responsibility