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Mark Rylance

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 18, 1960

In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.

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Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

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My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself 'the American' at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.

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Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.

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I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' until he's fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it.

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You feel a lot of rage when someone dies. I have a lot of faith in nature, but it can be cruel.

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It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

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And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

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Chaos can be incredibly creative.

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It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.

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Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

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But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

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It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

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There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

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And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

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I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.

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But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

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Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

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It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

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