Shakespeare in Love quotes

58 total quotes

Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels
Multiple Characters
Ned Alleyn

Philip Henslowe
Queen Elizabeth
Viola De Lesseps
William Shakespeare

View Quote What is the play and what is my part?

View Quote [reacting to another actor during rehearsal] Are you going to do it like that?

View Quote [on learning the fate of his character] He dies?

View Quote [singing the stage directions] Gentlemen upstage; ladies downstage... Are you a lady Mr. Kent?

View Quote [expressing displeasure with Juliet's performance] Suffering cats!

View Quote And you, Sir, are a Warwickshire shithouse.

View Quote [paying a young John Webster for having tipped him off] You will do well, I fear.

View Quote That "woman" is a woman!

View Quote [Tylney and Rosaline (Burbage's mistress) have just been discovered in Burbage's bed by Will, who barged in expecting to find Burbage] Like you, I found him not at home.

View Quote Hugh Fennyman: [Dropping Mr. Henslowe's feet into hot coals] Henslowe! Do you know what happens to a man who doesn't pay his debts? His boots catch fire!

View Quote Makepeace, the Preacher: [protesting outside The Rose] Licentiousness is made a show! Vanity and pride are likewise made a show! This is the very business of show!

View Quote Lord Wessex: My lady, the tide waits for no man, but I swear it would wait for you.

View Quote Richard Burbage: The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast. But my father, James Burbage, had the first license to make a company of players from Her Majesty, and he drew from poets the literature of the age. We must show them that we are men of parts. Will Shakespeare has a play. I have a theatre. The Curtain is yours.

View Quote Hugh Fennyman: Uh, one moment, sir.
Ned Alleyn: Who are you?
Hugh Fennyman: I'm, uh... I'm the money.
Ned Alleyn: Then you may remain so long as you remain silent.

View Quote Lord Wessex: [about Viola] Is she obedient?
Sir Robert de Lesseps: As any mule in Christendom - but if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag.
Lord Wessex: I like her!