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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. "

John Rhys-Davies

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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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" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "

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

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

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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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" 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 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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" 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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" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

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" I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. "

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

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" When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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