14 Quotes by Mark Rylance
- 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.
- It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
- 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.
- 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 sex scenes are particularly erotic.
- 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.
- 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.
- And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.
- 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.
- But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
- 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.
- But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.
- Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
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