English - Actor | January 18, 1960 -
I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I'm like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I've got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy.
Mark Rylance
GreatEnergyBetterMoodEmotional
You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.
StoryMaskYouActorTryServing
It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.
LonelyDangerousSpyHonestImagine
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.
WifeMeMoonPerceptionThinkTrue
Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
ChildrenHelpfulActPrettyMuch
I didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got offered lots of it. I liked Complicite and Shared Experience and Kick Theatre, and all the small theatre companies that were getting going. I wanted to be like that, making original theatre.
ExperienceTheatreSmallGiftActor
I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.
PeaceTheatreFateSurvivalPlace
It's strange how the mind works while you're acting, because you have all sorts of quick thoughts going on as well as the motivations with the character.
CharacterMindThoughtsYouActing
If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.
WomanOldRightSameFilmWould
You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.
GreatThinkYouKnowActorNeed
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.
ThoughtMotivationComedySomeone
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
ExercisePlayGoThroughShakespeare
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Mark Rylance quotes