Mark Rylance

“My experience of acting is that it is a kind of ritual.”

“What you do when no one is watching is what you are.”

“Storytelling is a very important part of our humanness.”

“The nice thing about acting is that you're always having to be a beginner.”

“We are given our bodies, and we are given our brains. And you've got to do the best you can with them.”

“The way people are being fooled by the commercial world is just terrible. The credulity of people is just appalling.”

“There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.”

“The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, you don't have a theater.”

“I’m very fond of the saying ‘If you can’t see the good in someone, you’re not looking hard enough.’”

“Theater is a sacred space for playing.”

“Plays are always about the circumstances happening to a character.”

“There's an inner thing in people that, when they are in a room together, they are longing to connect.”

“I'm not a Method actor. I'm a imagination actor.”

“If we're not creating something that has a gnarly question at the end of it, I'm not interested.”

“One of the things I learned in the theater is that you're not meant to be looking at yourself. You're meant to be looking at the other person.”