John Rhys-Davies Quotes

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John Rhys-Davies

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 5, 1944

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

John Rhys-Davies

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

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

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

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Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

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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.

John Rhys-Davies

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

John Rhys-Davies

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

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Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!

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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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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.

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If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.

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

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I love a good safari.

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Films are fun, but life is much richer.

John Rhys-Davies

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

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

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