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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. "

John Rhys-Davies

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

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

John Rhys-Davies

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" I'm a little smarter than most. "

" '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. "

" Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

John Rhys-Davies

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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. "

" A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors. "

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

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

" When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response. "

" How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script? "

" 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. "

John Rhys-Davies

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