Mark Rylance Professions : ActorBorn : January 18, 1960 Browse All Authors Top 30 quotes by Mark Rylance Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real. Mark Rylance realorderideas 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 wifemoonthinking 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 motivationplayschool 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 educationwritingbeautiful 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 nicewonderfulinteresting There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. Mark Rylance has-beenswrittenbook It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. Mark Rylance shakespeare-playplayexercise You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor. Mark Rylance actorsneedsthinking 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 starsopportunityjobs And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels. Mark Rylance differentplaypeople I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life. Mark Rylance easierstagethinking It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic. Mark Rylance eroticsexthinking But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. Mark Rylance dinnercleverideas Every film of a book brings out a certain essential thing of the book, in film you need experience and plot. So it's very faithful to the book, but it's a different creature than the book. Mark Rylance company-news Certainly the work I did on 'Bridge of Spies' benefited from this opportunity the BBC gave me with 'Wolf Hall'. I don't think I would have acted as well in 'Bridge of Spies' if I hadn't have done 'Wolf Hall,'. Mark Rylance entertainment I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I'm like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I've got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy. Mark Rylance bettergreatmoodenergy Chaos can be incredibly creative. Mark Rylance incrediblychaoscreative It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest. Mark Rylance spydangerousimaginelonely You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story. Mark Rylance wearstorytryyou I can't believe, even in 'The Guardian,' people ask the questions, 'Where did ISIS come from?' 'How did this happen?' 'Why do young Muslim women go off to join them?' Maybe because we've been degrading their people since 1917. Maybe their teenage years are a little bit more stressed than that of Christianity. Mark Rylance gowomenbelievepeople Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actorAll Authors
