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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 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. "

John Rhys-Davies

I Am

Friends

Process

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

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

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

" '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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'm a little smarter than most. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

" 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. "

" Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I hate being out of work! "

" 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. "

" I love a good safari. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

John Rhys-Davies

Think

Stamp

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

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