Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Imelda Staunton: Nurse
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Quotes
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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!
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Nurse : Lord Wessex was looking at you tonight.
Viola De Lesseps : 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.
Nurse : Not Valentine and Sylvia.
Viola De Lesseps : 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. Or I will end my days as a...
Nurse : As a nurse?
Viola De Lesseps : Oh, but I will be Valentine and Sylvia too. Oh, good nurse, God save you and good night.
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[Whispering at Viola's bedroom door]
Nurse : My lady, the house is stirring. It is a new day.
Viola De Lesseps : It is a new WORLD.
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Viola De Lesseps : When can we see another?
Nurse : When the Queen commands it.
Viola De Lesseps : Oh, to Playhouse! Nurse!
Nurse : Be still. Playhouses are not for well born ladies.
Viola De Lesseps : Oh, I'm not so well born!
Nurse : Well moneyed is the same as well born. And well married is more so.
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Viola De Lesseps : Did you like Proteus or Valentine best? Proteus for speaking. Valentine for looks.
Nurse : Oh, I liked the dog for laughs.