William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
Viola De Lesseps: Nor you, for me.
William Shakespeare: Goodbye, my love. A thousand times goodbye.
Viola De Lesseps: Write me well.
Queen Elizabeth: I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that.
"Thomas Kent": Tell me how you love her, Will.
William Shakespeare: Like a sickness - and its cure, together.
"Thomas Kent": Oh, yes. Like rain and sun. Like cold and heat.
William Shakespeare: Marlowe's touch was in my Titus Andronicus. And my Henry VI was a house built on his foundation.
Viola De Lesseps: You never spoke so well of him.
William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.
William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool?
Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?
Viola De Lesseps: I do not know to undress a man.
William Shakespeare: It is strange to me, too.
Philip Henslowe: [Repeated line] I don't know. It's a mystery.
Queen Elizabeth: You are an eager boy. Did you like the play?
John Webster: I liked it when she stabbed herself, Your Majesty.
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!
Lord Wessex: I have spoken with your father.
Viola De Lesseps: So, my lord? I speak with him every day.
Hugh Fennyman: Uh, one moment, sir.
Ned Alleyn: Who are you?
Hugh Fennyman: I'm, uh... I'm the money.
Ned Alleyn: Then you may remain so long as you remain silent.
Tilney: That woman is a woman!
Philip Henslowe: Another little problem.
William Shakespeare: What'll we do now?
Philip Henslowe: The show must... you know...
William Shakespeare: Go on?
William Shakespeare: I'm done with theater. The playhouse is for dreamers. Look what the dream brought us.
Viola De Lesseps: It was we ourselves did that. And for my life to come, I would not have it otherwise.
Lord Wessex: How is this to end?
Queen Elizabeth: As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey.
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!
