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,…

- Mark Rylance

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

- Mark Rylance

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

- Mark Rylance

It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there…

- Mark Rylance

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…

- Mark Rylance

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

- Mark Rylance

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

- Mark Rylance

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

- Mark Rylance

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

- Mark Rylance