I had to turn down a part in ‘Empire of the Sun.’ It would have paid £15,000, which was a year’s earnings for me then, but I was offered a season at the ‘National Theatre.’ Mark Rylance Read Quote
I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination. Mark Rylance Read Quote
I’ve always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ until he’s fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it. Mark Rylance Read Quote
I love film. I love going to see films; I always have. I’ve done quite a few. Mark Rylance Read Quote
I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good book of poetry is like going to the gym for an hour. My mind just expands. Mark Rylance Read Quote
I’m still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn’t do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house. Mark Rylance Read Quote
If there was no fame involved and very minimal money – which is the case for most actors – I’d still be doing it. If I wasn’t good enough to be a professional, I’d be an amateur actor. Mark Rylance Read Quote
Some actors are frightened and concentrating so hard on their own performance, you don’t feel that anything you do makes any difference. They’re just kicking a ball against a wall, so to speak. Mark Rylance Read Quote
The bad, angry, upset, wounded people are more interesting, so they’re in the news more, but I don’t think they’re in the majority. I have faith that things will change – I mean, just like everybody else, I don’t fix my roof until it’s actually leaking, but eventually, we all get round to doing it. Mark Rylance Read Quote
