Mark Rylance Quotes

You know, I don’t think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

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.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

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.

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.

It’s difficult for me to say, but I don’t think the s*x scenes are particularly erotic.