SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, 1998
-John Madden
(favs: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush)

"-You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
-Nor you, for me.
-Goodbye, my love. A thousand times goodbye.
-Write me well"

"-Tell me how you love her, Will.
-Like a sickness - and its cure, together.
-Oh, yes. Like rain and sun. Like cold and heat"

"-Can you love a fool?
-Can you love a player?"

"-All the men at court are without poetry. If they see me, they see my father's fortune, I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.
-Not Valentine and Sylvia.
-No! Not the artful postures of love, but love that overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love as there has never been in a play. I will have love"

"I love you - beyond poetry"

"-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!"

"Love knows nothing of rank, or riverbank. It will spark between a Queen and the poor vagabond who plays the King - and their love should be minded by each, for love denied blights the soul we owe to God"