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" I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage. "
John Rhys-Davies
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" The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer. "
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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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" 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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" A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books. "
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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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" 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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" Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. "
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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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" 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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" If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes. "
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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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" I hate being out of work! "
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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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" No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people. "
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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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" If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard. "
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" Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created. "
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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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" As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective. "
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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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" I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career. "
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" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "
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" 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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