Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Judi Dench: Queen Elizabeth
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Quotes
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Queen Elizabeth : I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that.
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Lord Wessex : How is this to end?
Queen Elizabeth : As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey.
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Queen Elizabeth : [after inspecting 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.
Lord Wessex : [angrily] Marlowe!
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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.
Viola De Lesseps : Oh, but they can!
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Queen Elizabeth : You are an eager boy. Did you like the play?
John Webster : I liked it when she stabbed herself, Your Majesty.
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Queen Elizabeth : And tell Master Shakespeare, something more cheerful next time, for Twelfth Night.
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Queen Elizabeth : [to Lord Wessex, about Viola] Have her, then, but you are a lordly fool. She's been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you.
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Queen Elizabeth : Mr. Tilney! Have a care with my name - you will wear it out!
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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.
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Queen Elizabeth : The Queen of England does not attend exhibitions of public lewdness. So, something is out of joint.
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Viola De Lesseps : I love theater. To have stories acted for me by a company of fellows is in deed...
Queen Elizabeth : They're not acted for you, they're acted for me. And?
Viola De Lesseps : And I love poetry above all.
Queen Elizabeth : Above Lord Wessex?
Queen Elizabeth : [to Wessex] My Lord, when you cannot find your wife, you better look for her at the Playhouse.
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Queen Elizabeth : Too late. Too late.