Shakespeare in Love quotes
58 total quotesPhilip Henslowe
Queen Elizabeth
Viola De Lesseps
William Shakespeare
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What is the play and what is my part?
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[reacting to another actor during rehearsal] Are you going to do it like that?
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[on learning the fate of his character] He dies?
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[singing the stage directions] Gentlemen upstage; ladies downstage... Are you a lady Mr. Kent?
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[expressing displeasure with Juliet's performance] Suffering cats!
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And you, Sir, are a Warwickshire shithouse.
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[paying a young John Webster for having tipped him off] You will do well, I fear.
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That "woman" is a woman!
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[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.
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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!
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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!
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Lord Wessex: My lady, the tide waits for no man, but I swear it would wait for you.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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!
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!