In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world. Mark Rylance Read Quote
We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed. Mark Rylance Read Quote
A lot of actors, you can’t get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they’re always telling you something. Mark Rylance Read Quote
My understanding is that we are generally a very philanthropic and compassionate people – that when there are disasters in the world, individual citizens send loads of money into appeals for different things. We’re a bloody violent people, football fans, and we’ve been successful at wars, and we sell far too many weapons. Mark Rylance Read Quote
Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act. Mark Rylance Read Quote
I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell’s time that there’s some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there’s a consciousness that isn’t physical. Mark Rylance Read Quote
It’s an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren’t really telling people what they’re doing. Mark Rylance Read Quote
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. Mark Rylance Read Quote
It’s difficult for me to say, but I don’t think the sex scenes are particularly erotic. Mark Rylance Read Quote
