Mark Rylance Quotations

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.

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.

If something happened to Erin or Erin's job, they would be in serious trouble.

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.

I think the most absolute truth is only as good as the time that it's told. It's only as good as where the person, the receiver of that, is.

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

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.

So whoever you believe wrote the plays, they felt it was important to mask them, to mask the identity, the personality of the author.

You would no sooner ask me to play Shakespeare away from the Globe than you'd ask some rock star to make his new record on eight-track tape.

There's a weak place in every plot, ladies and gentleman, (and) in this case, the weak place is the plot,

It just came into my soul that the time and place was changing and that I wasn't the right leader for the Globe anymore.

In terms of pure acting, it's a gift.

But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.

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.

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.

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 Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

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

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.

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.

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.

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