John Rhys-Davies Quotes

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John Rhys-Davies

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 5, 1944

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.

John Rhys-Davies

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

John Rhys-Davies

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

John Rhys-Davies

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 can't give a soundbite for love or money.

John Rhys-Davies

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.

John Rhys-Davies

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.

John Rhys-Davies

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.

John Rhys-Davies

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

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

John Rhys-Davies

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

John Rhys-Davies

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.

John Rhys-Davies

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.

John Rhys-Davies

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

John Rhys-Davies

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.

John Rhys-Davies

Western Europeans are not having any babies.

John Rhys-Davies

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.

John Rhys-Davies

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

John Rhys-Davies

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

John Rhys-Davies

If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.

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