Queen Elizabeth to Lord Wessex, informing him of his future bride: "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." Judi Dench was awesome in this movie. I know some people find it ludicrous to award an eight-minute performance with an Oscar but I happen to think Dame Judi earned it.
sharemy favorite is lines in themovie are
i don't know, it's a mystery!
as all stories where love is denied,with tears and a journy.
Now Harry let us go out in to the night and persue that flighty temptress adventure.
Will: We are in desperate want of a Mercutio, Ned, a young nobleman of Verona.
Ned: And the title of this piece?
Will: ... Mercutio!
Ned: I will play him!
Definately:
Ned: What is the play and what... is... my... part?
(Someones goes to speak)
Ned: WHO ARE YOU?
lmao floors me :P
Oh now that's what you mean by Signature...
Actor: Gentlemen, good day, a word with one of you!
Ned: Are you going to say it like that?
Something about Affleck's face is so funny.
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Given that a lot of the movie is funnier if you're familiar with Shakespeare and the Elizabethan era, two of my favorite scenes/lines are Will and his apothecary/psychiatrist because it's just pure Stoppard, and later when the nasty boy who plays with rats says his name is John Webster. I think I was the only person in the theatre who got the Webster joke, but it broke me up.
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"It will all turn out."
"How will it?"
"I don't know, it's a mystery."
It is a miracle right up there with virgin birth and carpenters being raised from the dead that a theatrical production even "happens"
Keep The Change Bob.
"The Maestro says its Mozart, when it sounds like bubblegum."
I think I was the only person in the theatre who got the Webster joke, but it broke me up.
Just the same here!
My favorite lines are:
"You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die." and also, "It will be a love story, for she will be my heroine for all time." I don't know why, but I just love those lines.
I think I was the only person in the theatre who got the Webster joke, but it broke me up.
Just the same here!
"That woman is a woman!"
Cracked me right up.
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Do you hear the people sing?
Bravo. A lot of peole didn't get the John Webster stuff. Great.
shareI love that too!!
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Thank you. That's the line for which I was searching. Simply wonderful.
shareBurbage's speech, when all seems lost:
"The Master of the Revels despises us all for vagrants and peddlers of bombast. But my father, James Burbage, had the first license to make a company of players from Her Majesty, and he drew from poets the literature of the age. We must show them that we are men of parts. Will Shakespeare has a play. I have a theatre. The Curtain is yours."
Martin Clunes did a fine job with that in my opinion, and it's saved from taking itself too seriously by Henslowe weeping at the end.
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I just watched the movie the other day, and loved it! There are so many great lines. The ones previously mentioned, but also
Philip Henslowe: [after William Shakespeare has finished explaining the tragic ending to Romeo and Juliet] Well, that'll have 'em rolling in the aisles.
William Shakespeare: You see? The comsumptives plot against me. "Will Shakespeare has a play, let us go and cough through it."
Right after "Romeo" kills himself and Viola De Lesseps playing Juliet rising from the "dead' and the audience gasping!
Viola De Lesseps: [as Juliet] I do remember well where I should be, and there I am - where is my Romeo?
Nurse: [shouting from the audience] Dead!
Will: You will not age for me, nor fade, nor die...
Viola: Nor will you...
You see? The comsumptives plot against me. "Will Shakespeare has a play, let us go and cough through it."
That's MY FAVORITE!!!!
Philip Henslowe: [after William Shakespeare has finished explaining the tragic ending to Romeo and Juliet] Well, that'll have 'em rolling in the aisles.
(When Ned suggests they change the name of the play from "Mercutio" to "Romeo and Juliet").
Will: You are a gentleman, Ned.
Ned: (walking away) And you... are a Warwickshire sh!thouse.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.
Everytime Geoffrey Rush says: "I don't know it's a mystery."
And there's something wonderful about" "So you're married? If you're married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed."
Since I've probably spent more time in real theatres than movie theatres, my favourite lines are:
Philip Henslowe: The show must... you know...
William Shakespeare: [prompting him] Go on!
All of the ones mentioned so far, plus
Elizabeth: "Fireworks will be restful after the excitement of Lady
Viola's audience."
"I gave up my prizes for a sonnet"
Soft In The Butt!!
Someone said it already but when they are in the boat and the guy rowing tries to chime in and Will says "Row your boat!"
"You're a real thinker, ain't you! Yeah, that Jack Twist, he's got it all figured out."
my favorite line is when Will sees Viola and says "Oh, I am fortunes fool."
shareThat's another one of my favorites too. I like when he screams it in the play. :-D
shareWhat about the scene where they first wake together and Will tries to convince her that it was the rooster signaling the morning and she tries to convince him that it was the owl in the night that made the sound. After she kisses him several times, he starts to say that "It was the owl, believe me, love, it was the owl" and SHE tells him it's broad day. :-P I love how he makes the switch from day to night. lol
share"But I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that."
So subtle, a throwaway line in a movie full of great lines, but it really struck me.
...Followed immediately by the hilarious "Too late, too late" moment to keep everything from sinking totally into seriousness.
haha thats my favorite too!!
shareYou may know this already (it's unclear from your post) but that bit of dialogue actually plays with dialogue in Romeo and Juliet--when Romeo is about to leave their wedding bed since he's been banished from Verona and it's almost daylight, Juliet tries to dissuade him. He says he heard the morning lark and she says "believe me, love, it was the nightingale."
shareI love the bits where they play games with the text of Romeo and Juliet, giving Juliet's lines to Will and Romeo's lines to Viola. It's always apposite and very clever. But there were half a dozen lines which made me choke on my popcorn. The John Webster line, the boatman and 'lovely waistcoat, shame about the poetry'.
And three not so far mentioned, two classic luvvie cliches
Ned 'Are you going to do it like THAT?' and
Tilney 'I hope we work together again'
and
Hot Gospeller: "Show, Show, this is naught but the business of show' a great bit of Show business wordplay.
The wasitcoat pages line is my absolute vernacular favorite in this movie.
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In a movie mingling Shakespeare, Stoppard, and Norman how can one possibly pick just one line, but I like your choice. "Believe me, love, it was the nightingale." To die for.
shareThis isn't really a line. But my favorite part is where Will Shakespeare dresses up like a nurse and talks in a high voice so he doesn't get caught by Lord Wessex. It was hilarious.
shareProb been mentioned, but I like Ben Affleck's lines to Mr Fennyman when he first comes into the theatre:
"Silence you dog! I am Hieronimo, I am Tamburlane, I am Faustus, I am Barabbas, the Jew of Malta. Oh yes, Master Shakespeare I am Henry VI"
then
"Then you may stay so long as you remain silent. Pay attention. You will see how genius creates a legend" - Classic!
Also, definitely mentioned before was Martin Clunes' line when Will has just told him about Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter and how it's meant for Ned and the Admiral's Men - "Mmmm, Ned's wrong for it" His expression cracks me up given he knows nothing of the play!
'Or El Duderino if you're not into the whole 'brevity' thing'
I can't believe nobody's mentioned the bit when Lord Wessex is asking Will (disguised as Miss Wilhemena) about Marlowe and Will says "Lovely waistcoat, shame about the poetry" and Wessex storms off.
shareWhen Geoffrey Rush says - "I don't know the play must must"....
and Joseph Fiennes says impatiently
"Go On"
Brilliant
i totally love this film. The dialogue is very well written.
most of the lines are all ready mentioned here.
I love the dialogue when the two lovers say goodbye and discuss the play for
twelft night.
The last scene where we see joseph fiennes writing the play and hear his voice over as we see gwyneth walk on shore. Those words allways stick with me.
I agreee! Its my fav line too!! Such a wicked character , she adds sum spice and fun in the snobbish and fade "QUEENY" aspect i think!
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