"[last lines] My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola."

"You see? The comsumptives plot against me. "Will Shakespeare has a play, let us go and cough through it.""

"Love denied blights the soul we owe to God."

"Master Kent, as I foretold, Lord Wessex has lost his wife to the theater. Go, make your farewell, and send her out."

"[to Lord Wessex] 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."

"I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that."

"Write me well."

"[to her Nurse] I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play."

"I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players."

"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."

"I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you."

"We think it is time that you recognized that you are masters in someone else's home. Despite the best intentions of the best of you, you must, in the nature of things, humiliate us to control us. General Dyer is but an extreme example of the principle... it is time you left."

"I was called to the bar in London, and enrolled at the High Court of Chancery. I am, therefore, an attorney. And, since I am in your eyes coloured, I think we can deduce that there is at least one coloured attorney in South Africa."

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

"Amrish Puri - Kahn"

"Alyque Padamsee - Muhammad Ali Jinnah"

"Geraldine James - Mirabehn"

"Saeed Jaffrey - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel"

"Günther Maria Halmer - Dr. Herman Kallenbach"

"Athol Fugard - Gen. Jan Christiaan Smuts"

"Ian Charleson - Rev. Charlie Andrews"

"Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always."

"Martin Sheen - Vince Walker"

"John Mills - Lord Chelmsford"

"Trevor Howard - Judge Broomfield"

"John Gielgud - Lord Irwin"

"Edward Fox - Gen. Reginald Dyer"

"Candice Bergen - Margaret Bourke-White"

"Roshan Seth - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru"

"Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi"