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John Rhys-Davies Quotes

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

– John Rhys-Davies

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.

– 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.

– John Rhys-Davies

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

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

– John Rhys-Davies

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

– 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 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.

– John Rhys-Davies

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

– John Rhys-Davies

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

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

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

– 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 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.

– 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

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

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

– John Rhys-Davies

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

– John Rhys-Davies

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

– John Rhys-Davies

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

– 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

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