Words matter. These are the best John Rhys-Davies Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
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.
My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
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.
Actually, I’m addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear – I love sci-fi.
No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.
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.
The script of ‘Shogun’ was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn’t take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.
I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.
If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you’re doing, you’re better off giving it up.
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.
Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they’re the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I’ve met a few real villains in my time, and they weren’t the least bit sympathetic.
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.
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.
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.
The word ‘career’ and ‘actor’ really don’t fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with.
How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ into a film script?
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.
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.
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.
I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.
I love a good safari.
Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.
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.
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.
To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.
I can’t give a soundbite for love or money.
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.
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.
I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.
When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.
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.
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.
If you’ve gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes.
