Mark rylance

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

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

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.

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.

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

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.

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the...

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...

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

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