“It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot ...” — Mark Rylance Quote

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.

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.

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.

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

I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.

It's lonely being stuck in a hotel in London for two nights. Even a couple of nights away from the children is awful.

On 'The X Factor,' they deliberately have people on that are awful just to laugh at them.

Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.

I try to think of school - this is going to sound awful - as something I do in my free time.