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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
You
Game
Queen
Win
Sometimes
King
Sacrifice
Rather
Knight
Like
Pieces
Withdraw
Chess
Spying
Than
Your
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
Dreams
Time
Quality
Met
Few
Own
Think
Our
Bit
Memorable
Hyde
My Time
Like
Because
Makes
Least
Real
Were
Endow
Fiction
Fictional
Them
Warmth
Villain
Villains
Actor
Sympathetic
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
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
Better
Made
Live
Enjoy
Think
Since
Know
Begin
Improvement
Whatsoever
Getting
Getting Better
Acting
Fully
Now
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
Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.
John Rhys-Davies
You
Sometimes
Films
Indeed
More
Disasters
Learn
Terribly
Real
Than
Succeed
Successful
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
Live
Every
Way
Telephone
Those
System
High
Directory
Put
Named
Pile
Up
Stacked
Galaxy
Them
Modest
Hollywood
Miles
Star
Milky Way
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
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.
John Rhys-Davies
Work
Discipline
Nothing
Cold
Having
Like
Boy
Does
Bulgaria
Get
Plain
Film
Film Set
Set
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
If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.
John Rhys-Davies
You
Have Fun
Better
Giving
Enjoy
Better Off
Doing
Off
Up
Cannot
Fun
Set
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
History
Age
Mother
Parents
Desperately
Further
William
Emily
Neuroses
Could
Facts
Looked
Were
Very
Very Early Age
Anxieties
Realised
Poor
Sarah
Henry
Her
Early
Early Age
My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
John Rhys-Davies
Parents
Always
Proud
Were
Very
Wales
I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.
John Rhys-Davies
Myself
Me
Too Much
Fly
Too
Worry
Airplane
Above
Being
Much
Used
Ground
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
Positions
Sympathy
Mine
Evolutionary
Find
Am
Friends
Process
Creationist
Who
Believer
Incompatible
I can't give a soundbite for love or money.
John Rhys-Davies
Love
Money
Give
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
Myself
Awareness
Christian
Civilization
Count
Fairly
Am
Passionate
Western
Very
Skeptic
Conscious
Defender
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