James Callis Quotes

#1. My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

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#2. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

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#3. Jane Austen is very amusing.

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#4. I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

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#5. When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

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#6. You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

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#7. I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

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#8. You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

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#9. Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

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#10. There wasn't very much going on in London about five years ago, and I just took a ticket on spec and went to Los Angeles. I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for 'Battlestar.'

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#11. Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

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#12. My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

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#13. You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.

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#14. One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

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#15. When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

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#16. I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

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#17. On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

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