William Shakespeare You see? The consumptives plot against me. "Will Shakespeare has a play, let us go and cough through it."
Most-quoted character in Shakespeare in Love (1998): in 20 of its 61 quotes
Most scenes with: Viola De Lesseps (7)
My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... the wild waters roar and heave... the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name... Viola.
More lines from William Shakespeare
8 quotes William Shakespeare William Shakespeare [to Rosaline]
Are you to be my muse?
William Shakespeare It is not a comedy I'm writing now.
William Shakespeare Love knows nothing of rank or river bank.
William Shakespeare Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
William Shakespeare A broad river divides my lovers: family, duty, fate. As unchangeable as nature.
William Shakespeare [to Viola, as they part]
You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
William Shakespeare I'm fortune's fool!
Scenes with William Shakespeare
11 scenes William Shakespeare I have a new play.
Christopher Marlowe What's it called?
William Shakespeare Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter.
Christopher Marlowe What is the story?
William Shakespeare Well, there's this pirate... In truth I have not written a word.
Christopher Marlowe Romeo...Romeo is Italian. Always in and out of love.
William Shakespeare Yes, that's good. Until he meets...
Christopher Marlowe Ethel
William Shakespeare Do you think?
Christopher Marlowe The daughter of his enemy.
William Shakespeare The daughter of his enemy...
Christopher Marlowe His best friend is killed in a duel by Ethel's brother, or something. His name is Mercutio.
William Shakespeare Mercutio...Good name.
Nol Will, they're waiting for you!
William Shakespeare I'm coming...Good luck with yours, Kit.
Christopher Marlowe I thought your play was for Burbage.
William Shakespeare This is a different one.
Christopher Marlowe A different one you haven't written?
Master Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare The same, alas.
Oh, but why "alas"?
William Shakespeare A lowly player.
Alas indeed, for I thought you the highest poet of my esteem and writer of plays that capture my heart.
William Shakespeare Oh - I am him too!
I cannot shed blood in her house, but I will cut your throat anon. Do you have a name?
William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe, at your service.
William Shakespeare Follow that boat!
Boatman
Right you are, guv'nor!... I know your face. Are you an actor?
William Shakespeare Yes.
Boatman
Yes, I've seen you in something. That one about a king.
William Shakespeare Really?
Boatman
I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once.
[Will sighs]
[after her first experience with sex]
I would not have thought it: there IS something better than a play!
William Shakespeare There is.
Even your play.
William Shakespeare Hmm?
And that was only my first try.
William Shakespeare Like a sickness and its cure together.
The show must... you know...
William Shakespeare [prompting him]
Go on!
I loved a writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.
William Shakespeare I was the more deceived.
Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you.
William Shakespeare Can you love a fool?
Can you love a player?
I have never undressed a man before.
William Shakespeare It is strange to me, too.
William Shakespeare I'm done with theater. The playhouse is for dreamers. Look what the dream brought us.
It was we ourselves did that. And for my life to come, I would not have it otherwise.
