[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!
William Shakespeare
Joseph Fiennes · 20 quotes
Viola De Lesseps
Gwyneth Paltrow · 18 quotes
Ned Alleyn
Ben Affleck · 9 quotes
Philip Henslowe
Geoffrey Rush · 8 quotes
Queen Elizabeth
Judi Dench · 8 quotes
Lord Wessex
Colin Firth · 5 quotes
Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels
3 quotes
Hugh Fennyman
Tom Wilkinson · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: William Shakespeare & Viola De Lesseps (7)
Shakespeare in Love quotes
Page 1 of 5My lady, the tide waits for no man, but I swear it would wait for you.
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!
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.
Uh, one moment, sir.
Who are you?
I'm, uh... I'm the money.
Then you may remain so long as you remain silent.
Sir Robert de Lesseps
As any mule in Christendom - but if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag.
I like her!
How is this to end?
As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey.
I cannot shed blood in her house, but I will cut your throat anon. Do you have a name?
Christopher Marlowe, at your service.
I have spoken with your father.
So, my lord? I speak with him every day.
The bill! Ah, vanity, vanity!
Not the billing - the BILL!
Nurse My lady, the house is stirring. It is a new day.
It is a new WORLD.
Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
So what do we do?
Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.
How?
I don't know. It's a mystery.
The show must... you know...
Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.
Oh, but they can!
[after her first experience with sex]
I would not have thought it: there IS something better than a play!
There is.
Even your play.
Hmm?
And that was only my first try.