Mark Rylance Quotes

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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 and…
• It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.
• I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life,
• It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
• Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
• There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
• But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
• You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.
• 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…
• And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.
• 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…
• 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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