Top 35 Rylance Quotes
#1. I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life,
Mark Rylance
#2. Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
Mark Rylance
#3. In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.
Juliet Rylance
#4. I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will always go back to.
Juliet Rylance
#5. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
Mark Rylance
#10. We work so hard as young artists to further our careers or improve our technique, sometimes it gets so easy to not actually go and see things like a play or a film. I think the best way to get better is to see other actors do what they do well.
Juliet Rylance
#11. But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
Mark Rylance
#12. I find I have to respond to a character or a story to choose a job.
Juliet Rylance
#13. Watching my stepfather and mother working in the industry - acting and composing - and seeing firsthand how difficult it is to achieve a successful career in the theater, I thought it might be safer to go to art school with the aim of becoming a painter.
Juliet Rylance
#14. I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.
Juliet Rylance
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
Mark Rylance
#19. 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
#20. It really is individual for everyone, but for me, theater is where I learn and grow, and that is always a good thing.
Juliet Rylance
#21. I did a film called 'Days and Nights,' which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov's 'The Seagull.'
Juliet Rylance
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question ... at completely different levels.
Mark Rylance
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.
Mark Rylance
#28. My first paying job was a in a production of Neil LaBute's 'Bash: Latter Day Plays' at the Union Street theater in Borough. I played the 'Medea Redux' character. That was my first job out of drama school. I can't remember how much I got paid. I'm sure it was pennies.
Juliet Rylance
#29. I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.
Juliet Rylance
#30. You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.
Mark Rylance
#31. I think I was about seven when people started telling my parents I would be an actor or a performer of some kind.
Juliet Rylance
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
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