Shakespeare in Love

"[to her Nurse] 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 overthrows 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."

"A Comedy About the Greatest Love Story Almost Never Told..."

"I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players."

"[to Lord Wessex] Have her then, but youre a lordly fool. Shes been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you... it takes a woman to know it."

"Love denied blights the soul we owe to God."

"I know something of a woman in a mans profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that."

"You see? The comsumptives plot against me. "Will Shakespeare has a play, let us go and cough through it."

"Master Kent, as I foretold, Lord Wessex has lost his wife to the theater. Go, make your farewell, and send her out."

"[last lines] 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 seas 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 will be... Viola."

"Joseph Fiennes - Will Shakespeare"

"Nicholas Le Prevost - Sir Robert De Lesseps"

"Geoffrey Rush - Philip Henslowe"