“My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a...” – William Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love ... Movie Quotes Database

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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.

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William Shakespeare I'm fortune's fool! Viola De Lesseps I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players. Viola De Lesseps 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.