Mark Rylance Quotes

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

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

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

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

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

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life,

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.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.