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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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" 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. "

John Rhys-Davies

Democracy

Joy

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

John Rhys-Davies

Worry

Too Much

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "

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

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

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

" 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 found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating. "

" I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society. "

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

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

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

John Rhys-Davies

Science

Science Fiction

" 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. "

" I'm a little smarter than most. "

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

" 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 love a good safari. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Unkindness is quite a major sin. "