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14 quotes by John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films. He also played Agent Michael Malone in the 1993 remake of the 1950s television series The Untouchables, Pilot Vasco Rodrigues in the mini-series Shōgun, Professor Maximillian Arturo in Sliders, King Richard I in Robin of...
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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... →

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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... →

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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.... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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.

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

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Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from... →

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The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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