Mark Rylance Quotes
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
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Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
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Tender is the nightFor a broken heartWho will dry your eyesWhen it falls apart
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The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
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I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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That's where the money is, on the road.
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Not that I shouldn't have been traded - everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn't justifiable.
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The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.
