John Rhys-Davies Professions : Actor Born : May 5, 1944 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by John Rhys-Davies 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. John Rhys-Davies successful special thinking 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 sacrifice real hero Id 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 Wisdoms a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. John Rhys-Davies more-time suits men I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. John Rhys-Davies hero want 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 real joy civilization 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 sacrifice queens kings 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 succeed real 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 hollywood safety skills 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 feet character years 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. John Rhys-Davies scripts scene stories Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. John Rhys-Davies diction sci-fi fiction 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 fit actors careers 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 get-better acting thinking 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 tongue littles fun This is a unique age. We don't want to be judgmental, every other age that has come before us has believed exactly the opposite. I mean, T.S. Eliot referred to 'the common pursuit of true judgment.' Yes. That's what it's about. Getting our judgments right. John Rhys-Davies entertainment It's an age where politicians don't actually say what they believe, they are afraid of being judged as being partisan. Heaven forbid that we should criticize people who, after all, share a different value system. 'But it's all relevant. It's all equally relative. We're all the same. And God and the devil, they're the same, aren't they, really? Right and wrong? It's really just two faces of the same coin,'. John Rhys-Davies entertainment They are afraid of being judged as being partisan. Heaven forbid that we should criticize people who, after all, share a different value system. 'But it's all relevant. It's all equally relative. We're all the same. And God and the devil, they're the same, aren't they, really? Right and wrong? It's really just two faces of the same coin,' we have lost our moral compass completely, and, unless we find it, we're going to lose our civilization. I think we're going to lose Western European Christian civilization, anyway. John Rhys-Davies entertainment It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it. John Rhys-Davies get accept hard people 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 villain quality time I love a good safari. John Rhys-Davies i-love good love Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actor All Authors
