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" No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people. "

John Rhys-Davies

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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" If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes. "

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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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" '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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "

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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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" I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage. "

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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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" Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making. "

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" Unkindness is quite a major sin. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. "

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" Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic. "

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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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" 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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