John Rhys-Davies Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous John Rhys-Davies quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 80 year old English actor born on May 5, 1944.
“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.”
“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'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.”
“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.”
“I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.”
“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.”
“Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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