Tied for 4th most-quoted character in Shakespeare in Love (1998): in 8 of its 61 quotes
A line from Queen Elizabeth [Authorizing Lord Wessex to marry Viola]Have her, then, but you're a lordly fool. She's been plucked since I saw her last - and not by you. It takes a woman to know it.
Queen Elizabeth Fifty pounds! A very worthy sum on a very worthy question. Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love? I bear witness to the wager, and will be the judge of it as occasion arises. I have not seen anything to settle it yet.
Queen Elizabeth Mr. Tilney! Have a care with my name - you will wear it out!
Queen Elizabeth I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that.
Queen Elizabeth And tell Master Shakespeare, something more cheerful next time, for Twelfth Night.
Queen Elizabeth Master Kent, as I foretold, Lord Wessex has lost his wife to the theater. Go, make your farewell, and send her out.
Queen Elizabeth 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!
How is this to end?
Queen Elizabeth As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey.
