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John Rhys-Davies

Welsh Actor

Born: May 5, 1944

Actor Good Love People Think You

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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. John Rhys-Davies

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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. John Rhys-Davies

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I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. John Rhys-Davies

Love Wisdom Buy Time Man Down Spend Neighbour More Putting Anonymity Him Occasionally Parts Isle Norman Salute Going Suit

I love a good safari. John Rhys-Davies

Love Good

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. John Rhys-Davies

Sometimes Bit Lot Little Little Bit Fun Villains Villainy Conscious Tongue-In-Cheek

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

Me Democracy You Joy Alien Tolerance Something Civilization Sort Understand How Real Intellectual Western Western Civilization Precarious Get May Many

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. John Rhys-Davies

Work Experience Safety Considerations Abroad Safer Safer Place Because Than Place Hollywood Far Created Skill Working Level

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

Myself Hero Heroes Would Suppose Like Want

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. John Rhys-Davies

Needs Sometimes Hook Writer Just

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

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

God Believe Complete Positively Say Vanity Intellectually Now

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. John Rhys-Davies

Heart First Big Build Stars Universe Starts Other Finally Those Out Emerged Hydrogen First Thing Big Bang Off Bang The First Thing Essentially Heavier Then Helium Theory Elements Eventually Thing

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

Good You Looking Part Parts Always Up Screw Actor

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. John Rhys-Davies

Think Collections Collectors More Most Passport Than Stamp Stamps

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. John Rhys-Davies

War Great Consistency Cold Cold War Liberating Those Marvelous Firmness Supporters Countries Course Up America American Ended Europe Found

Films are fun, but life is much richer. John Rhys-Davies

Life Films Much Richer Fun

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. John Rhys-Davies

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

Parents Always Proud Were Very Wales

I can't give a soundbite for love or money. John Rhys-Davies

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