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" 'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie. "

John Rhys-Davies

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy. "

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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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" 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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" When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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" 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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" I'm a little smarter than most. "

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