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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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" Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed. "

John Rhys-Davies

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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. "

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

John Rhys-Davies

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. "

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

" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I love a good safari. "

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