Mark Rylance Quotes
I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings for me then, but I was offered a season at the 'National Theatre.'
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I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
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You must learn to see what you are looking at.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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The first car I ever owned was an Italian sports car, a convertible, and I've kind of owned everything under the sun since then.
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I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings for me then, but I was offered a season at the 'National Theatre.'
