Welcome to the SG-1 Quotes Tags and Mottos List
This is a list of quotes tags and mottos from our favorite actors. It also includes translations of their favorite quotes into Latin and Greek. The quotes include discusion of their characters and how they see them and quotes on acting.
This page was reformatted in February 2000 - you now have two new options -
Option One will to be just scroll down this page as usual and read all the quotes together - however !!!
Option Two - I will be adding links to new separate sections - one for each actor.
NEW JUNE 2001 - the Peter Williams "ONE LOVE" page!
The guys!
Richard Dean Anderson Michael Shanks
Chris Judges Don S. Davis
The Ladies of SG1
Amanda Tapping Teryl Rothery
The RDA section.
This first one is for RDA - Richard Dean Anderson aka Col. O'Neill because he loves DOGS
(hey Richard in the unlikely event you're reading
this give Zoe a pat for me!)
"LOVE DOGS" - Canes Amate!
From an interview - (scroll down to visit link to)
I don't chase cars anymore - Non longe currus sequi!
from the same online interview - "Share the joy!" - Gaudium communicare!
It's time for the next adventure and this is it!
Proximum facinorem tempus est! Et hic est!
I just enjoy sports! - Ex ludis voluptatem capio
Life's Too short Try to make it fun!
Vita brevissima est Ludus et Iocus conari facere!
((Greek - bios brakhistos einai paignia peiroometha poiein))
I have recently discovered RDA is a Monty Python fan - if anyone knows of a favorite Python quote of RDA's and thinks it would amuse RDA to see it in Latin let me know and I'ld be happy to add it to the page - I alas have no contact with the powers that be and no idea if any of the pros are lurking or not?
Some new RDA quotes from the Frontier 18 interview from jenny Wake:
Gekko's production ideal is Collaboration -
You have to turn this into a phrase to say it in Latin! Simul laborare!
Do I hear anyone saying - Wait a minute collaboration comes from Latin -
Yes but its post-classical - the verb collabor had a different meaning in classical Latin.
In Greek the concept of working together can be translated as one word - sunergia.
Another favorite motto of RDA's is - "The best idea wins"
Optima notio vincit! or hee aristee gnoomee vikai in greek!
One last quote from RDA about acting:
"I'm a vehicle that helps tell a story"
Vehiculum succurrere fabulae narrare sum
The Christopher Judge Section
for Chris Judges who plays Teal'c as an elegantly Stoic soldier
Miles eleganter stoicus
New quotes from Chris Judges based on things he said at the Sydney Sg-1 Convention - July 3 99
Quoting James Earl Jones
Let Stillness be your strength - Silentium tibi robur sit
((In Greek sioopee eei soi rhoomee))
"Sf asks What if?" Quid et si. Grk - Tis kai ei
Tealc is the opposite of who I am as a person.
Tealacus oppositus esse cuius homo sum.
Tealakos enantios einai emuaton oos thnetos.
The Amanda Tapping section.
For Amanda Tapping for bringing Major (former Captain) Carter a quality of radiant intelligence
Radiantly Intelligent - splendide sapiens!
Some new quotes from an interview by Karen Miller
"I think that its a gift that we get to do what we love, and we should be more gracious about it .
.. If I as an actor start to take myself too seriously ... then come over here and kick my ass, because I do what I love for a living and we need to be more gracious about it."
(Gracious in Latin is Benignus or Propitius)
On Major Carter -
I think her best trait is that she's incredibly loyal
(incredibiliter fidissima)
Her other qualities are being smart, determined and warm.
Some more Latin Vocabulary -
Loyal - fidelis fidus Loyalty - fidelitas fides
"I think her loyalty is her defining quality".
Cogito eius fidelitatis naturam circumscibere
When asked what she would like to be remembered for -
I would hope that I'ld be remembered for being kind. I'd like it to be remembered that I loved passionately, and that I laughed a lot and that I cared.
Spem habere mei ut meminerint bonum esse
Mihi placet si meminerint de meo ut ardenter amaui et multa risi et curaui!
The Teryl Rothery Section!
from the same Frontier 16 interview
On Acting - It is food for the soul - Fabulam agere cibus animae esse
"I get to bring life to the words a writer has written.
I get to tell a story that will hopefully have some effect on those who watch it.
On Frasier : "She really cares" Vere curare
She would like to be remembered for:
"That through my work I was able to touch someone."
Per meam operam aliquem tangere potui.
The Michael Shanks Section
Michael Shanks interview Frontier 17.
"Daniel's an innocent, naive optimist whose curiosity often kills the cat and whose energy and excitement are contagious. He's a little boy who's opened the biggest Christmas present yuo could imagine constantly excited and enthused."
"What I really like is Daniel's genuine quality, his caring for people. His honesty and compassion. If they changed that about him then I wouldnt want to play him any more."
On acting - "You have to be prepared to expose yourself"
"I am a perfectionist"
"I'm always looking for challenges, I never want to get complacent.
I want to stay open-eyed and excited about the work."
ON doing a Sf show -
"some of these ideas may have been done before but I've never done them, and we give them a new spin."
The Don S. Davis Section
A Quote from Don S. Davis from the Frontier 18 interview -
describing General Hammond:
"Hammond is intelligent, courageous, patriotic, loyal and compassionate."
DUTY and HONOUR" - Officium et honestas, Greek - katheekon kai timee
Another couple of quotes about acting:
ONE
"my goal is truth rather than artifice when possible, because the camera invariably spots and often amplifies fakery in performance."
TWO
"The thing I love about theatre, or any other artistic activity, is the creative process and the resulting object or performance".
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