Mark Rylance Quotes

#1. I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.

Colin Callender

#2. Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better.

Graham Shiels

#3. Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

Samuel Barnett

#4. I watched Mark Rylance in the Broadway revival of 'La Bete,' and it knocked my socks off. The complete commitment, passion, and unbridled enjoyment in every moment of what he was doing was overwhelming.

David Alan Basche

#5. I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

Samuel Barnett

#6. I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

Julian Ovenden

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

Mark Rylance

#8. 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 a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

Mark Rylance

#9. Private Benjamin lives next door but one to Bob Cryer from The Bill. I once saw him crouching down behind a sycamore tree and using his nose as an Allen Key to release a starving rat.

St John Morris

#10. It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

Mark Rylance

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

Mark Rylance

#12. 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 and perception of form as it is to say ... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

Mark Rylance

#13. 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 difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.

Mark Rylance

#14. I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

Kerry Washington

#15. The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

Rand Paul

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

Mark Rylance

#17. Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#18. You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

Mark Rylance

#19. I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona.

John McCain

#20. I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

Hope Solo

#21. 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, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

Mark Rylance

#22. As good as Miami is, we'd rather go to Miami.

Luol Deng

#23. The Lord GOD, h who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, i "I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.

Anonymous

#24. 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 between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

Mark Rylance

#25. Forget a man's name and he'll forgive you. Remember it, and he'll defend you forever.

Pierce Brown

#26. It comes true because we're wise, dear.

Sara Wolf

#27. You could toast marshmallows on the warmth of his regard.

Karen Miller

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

Mark Rylance

#29. Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.

Raymond Williams

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

Mark Rylance

#31. 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.

Mark Rylance

#32. What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV,

Donald Sterling

#33. Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Mark Rylance

#34. 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 angry about it.

Mark Rylance

#35. My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

Mark Rylance

#37. I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life,

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