Mark Rylance Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
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Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
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'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
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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.
