Mark Rylance Quotes
A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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My style icon has always been David Bowie. Just because of the variety of images and looks he created.
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He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.
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As a writer, you're always trying to say the best thing. You're always thinking about what's the best thing to say, and what's the hardest way to say it, and what's the best line? Sometimes the best line is the simplest line. Sometimes the best line is the line that evokes more feeling than actual wordsmithing.
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A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.
