Quotes by John Rhys-Davies

About John Rhys-Davies:

John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and voice actor best known for his portrayal of 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 Sh?gun, Professor Maximillian Arturo in Sliders, King Richard I in Robin of Sherwood, General Leonid Pushkin in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, and Macro in I, Claudius. Additionally, he provided the voices of Cassim in Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Man Ray in SpongeBob SquarePants, Hades in Justice League and Tobias in the computer game Freelancer.
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Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

John Rhys-Davies

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

Films are fun, but life is much richer.

John Rhys-Davies

As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.

John Rhys-Davies

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

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

John Rhys-Davies

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

John Rhys-Davies

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

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

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

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

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...

John Rhys-Davies

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

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

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

John Rhys-Davies

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

John Rhys-Davies

How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script?

John Rhys-Davies

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

John Rhys-Davies

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

John Rhys-Davies

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

John Rhys-Davies

If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.

John Rhys-Davies

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Rhys-Davies
  • DescriptionWelsh actor and voice actor
  • BornMay 5, 1944
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor