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" 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. "

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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. "

John Rhys-Davies

Rest

Love

Life

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up. "

John Rhys-Davies

Better

Enjoy

" 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. "

" I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics. "

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

John Rhys-Davies

Worry

Too Much

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm a little smarter than most. "

" Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. "

" Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen. "

" Films are fun, but life is much richer. "

" Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment. "

" I hate being out of work! "

" 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. "

" Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up! "

John Rhys-Davies

You

Screw

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with. "