Mark Rylance Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.