John Rhys-Davies

“If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes.”

“Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.”

“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.”

“I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with.”

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

“To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.”

“When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.”

“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.”

“I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.”

“I love a good safari.”

“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.”

“I can't give a soundbite for love or money.”

“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.”

“If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.”

“'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie.”

“I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.”

“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.”

“Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.”

“Films are fun, but life is much richer.”

“There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.”