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15 quotes by Mark Rylance

David Mark Rylance Waters (born 18 January 1960), known professionally as Mark Rylance, is an English actor, theatre director, and playwright. He has appeared in films such as Prospero's Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Institute Benjamenta (1996), and Intimacy (2001), and has won Olivier Awards, Tony Awards, and a BAFTA Award. He was the first Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, from 1995 to 2005. He stars with Tom Hanks...
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Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

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Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment... →

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There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

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Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection... →

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But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had... →

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I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so... →

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It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very... →

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Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire... →

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And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

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And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

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But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

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It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

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