Viola De Lesseps I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players.
2nd most-quoted character in Shakespeare in Love (1998): in 18 of its 61 quotes
Most scenes with: William Shakespeare (7)
I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play.
More lines from Viola De Lesseps
6 quotes Viola De Lesseps Viola De Lesseps [to Will]
Good sir? I heard you were a poet. But a poet of no words?
Viola De Lesseps This is not life, Will. It is a stolen season.
Viola De Lesseps Good morning, my lord. I see you are open for business - so let's to church.
Viola De Lesseps Write me well.
Viola De Lesseps I love you, Will, beyond poetry.
Scenes with Viola De Lesseps
11 scenes
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.
Viola De Lesseps Oh, but they can!
I have spoken with your father.
Viola De Lesseps So, my lord? I speak with him every day.
Viola De Lesseps Master Shakespeare?
The same, alas.
Viola De Lesseps Oh, but why "alas"?
A lowly player.
Viola De Lesseps Alas indeed, for I thought you the highest poet of my esteem and writer of plays that capture my heart.
Oh - I am him too!
Viola De Lesseps [after her first experience with sex]
I would not have thought it: there IS something better than a play!
There is.
Viola De Lesseps Even your play.
Hmm?
Viola De Lesseps And that was only my first try.
Nurse My lady, the house is stirring. It is a new day.
Viola De Lesseps It is a new WORLD.
Viola de Lesseps [as Thomas Kent]
Tell me how you love her, Will.
Like a sickness and its cure together.
Viola De Lesseps I loved a writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.
I was the more deceived.
Viola De Lesseps Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you.
Can you love a fool?
Viola De Lesseps Can you love a player?
Viola De Lesseps [as Juliet]
I do remember well where I should be, and there I am - where is my Romeo?
Nurse [crying, shouting from the audience]
Dead!
Viola De Lesseps I have never undressed a man before.
It is strange to me, too.
I'm done with theater. The playhouse is for dreamers. Look what the dream brought us.
Viola De Lesseps It was we ourselves did that. And for my life to come, I would not have it otherwise.
