Quotes by Mark Rylance - Page 2

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 / Actor
Jobs
Opportunity
Interpretation
Manifest
Stars
Theatre
Big Star
Fill
Hire
Shakespearean
Verse
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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 / Actor
Fantasy
Moments
Pure
Renowned
Work World Mind
Throughout
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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 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 / Actor
Computers
Elizabethan
Enjoyment
Moon
Perception
Thinking
Wife
Always Wife Me
To The Moon
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There were terrific shows on TV like 'Star Trek' and 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea' and 'Wild Wild West.' All us kids would watch them. We would act them out in the basement. I think I found that I could speak a bit more clearly when I was playing with other people.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Bottom
Sea
Terrific
West
Wild West
Basement
Wild
Star
Clearly
Star Trek
Trek
Voyage
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Shakespeare was the main thing I did in my life from the age of 16 when I first played 'Hamlet' at school. I then did summer stock the next summer and then went to RADA and joined the RSC and ran my own company and then worked at the Globe. That was about 30 years of my life.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Ran
Summer
Life Age My Life
Played
Globe
Hamlet
Joined
Main
Main Thing
Shakespeare
Stock
Worked
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I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Imagination
Curious
Theater
Wit
Audiences
Circle
Globe
Learnt
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It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Defined
Claustrophobic
Imagining
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I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' until he's fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Famous
Bob
Different Ways
Dylan
Fed Up
Singing
Wind
Success Hope Always
Bob Dylan
Fed
Finding
Hits
Looked
Pop Singer
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The bad, angry, upset, wounded people are more interesting, so they're in the news more, but I don't think they're in the majority. I have faith that things will change - I mean, just like everybody else, I don't fix my roof until it's actually leaking, but eventually, we all get round to doing it.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Angry
Roof
Upset
Wounded
Fix
Everybody Else
Round
Leaking
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I didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got offered lots of it. I liked Complicite and Shared Experience and Kick Theatre, and all the small theatre companies that were getting going. I wanted to be like that, making original theatre.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Aim
Offered
Shakespeare
Shared
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I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Catholic
Catholic Church
Consciousness
Loved Ones
Purgatory
Life Time Money
Experienced
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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 / Actor
Christianity
Degrading
Guardian
Stressed
Teenage
Teenage Years
Join
Muslim
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My understanding is that we are generally a very philanthropic and compassionate people - that when there are disasters in the world, individual citizens send loads of money into appeals for different things. We're a bloody violent people, football fans, and we've been successful at wars, and we sell far too many weapons.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Appeals
Bloody
Compassionate
Different Things
Philanthropic
Weapons
Money Football World
Wars
Disasters
Loads
Send
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I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'
Mark Rylance / Actor
Academy
Academy Awards
Agents
Attending
Awards
Theater
Winning
Anymore
Carry
Certainly
Happily
Promoted
Settled
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So often, in my life, when you play a joke on another actor, you say, 'Hello? Steven Spielberg? It's for you.' What's it feel like? It's bizarre. He feels like he's a friend. He feels like he's some kid in the neighborhood who has a camera and makes films, now and then, and says, 'Would you come 'round and play?' It doesn't feel grand at all.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Bizarre
Feels
Hello
Neighborhood
Now And Then
Life My Life Feel
Camera
Round
Grand
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
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