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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. "

John Rhys-Davies

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" The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story. "

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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 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

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

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

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

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" My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales. "

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" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" I can't give a soundbite for love or money. "

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