Mark Rylance : (4)

" 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, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation. " - Mark Rylance

" It’s a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest. " - Mark Rylance

" It’s an important thing for children to be able to make up their own words. " - Mark Rylance

" It’s something I’ve enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I’m someone other than who I am. I’ve always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I’ve had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me. " - Mark Rylance