Mark Rylance Quotes

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.

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• I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

  

  Zak Orth
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Day
  • Justice

• A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Home
  • Learning

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Work
  • Political
  • Unity

• I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Win

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Laugh

• I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel

• I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Baby
  • Lucky

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.

  

  Nate Parker
  • You
  • Energy
  • Choose

• When I'm out there on the mound, I'm fighting for my teammates, fighting for the ability to stay in the game for a long time. It's war. I see the hitter - I think about what I want to do, but it's a very quick process. Then I attack. It's almost primal.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

  

  Bob Considine
  • Work
  • May
  • Wish

• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  

  Doris Day
  • Age
  • Decay
  • Middle Age

• I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America

  

  Bing Crosby
  • America
  • Proud
  • Debt

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate