“I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, m...” — Mark Rylance Quote

I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

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

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

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.

I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

Despite my reservations, I do think there is scope for the Premier League to consider regionalised academies - but only if the pupils there were independent of any one club.

I'm grateful to the state and central government for all their support for my academy.

I know one thing; I'll never win an Academy Award.