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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate being out of work! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

John Rhys-Davies

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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