Romeo & Juliet (II) (2013)

Paul Giamatti: Friar Laurence

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• Friar Laurence : These violent passions can have violent ends, and blaze out like gunpowder in their fiery glory, consuming themselves... and others. The sweetest honey sickens when overate, defeating its own delight. Therefore be moderate. Long-lasting love must be. Love too fast can prove falser than love too slow.

• Friar Laurence : [to Romeo]  Disasters follow you like trusted dogs. You must be married to calamity.

• Friar Laurence : God pardon sin! Were you with Rosaline? I pray you were not playing Satan's game.

  Romeo : With Rosaline? I have forgot the name.

• Friar Laurence : Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here!

• Friar Laurence : His judgment has more pity than you dread. He seeks to have you banished and not dead.

  Romeo : Not banishment. Be merciful, say 'death.' For exile hasn't more terror in his look, much more than death. Do not say 'banishment!'

  Friar Laurence : All he asks is that you leave Verona. It's not so much. The world is broad and wide.

  Romeo : There is no world beyond the city's walls - just purgatory, torture, hell itself! And exile is another word for death. The Prince's kindness is a golden axe that cuts my head off!

  Friar Laurence : Rude, unthankful boy! The Prince, in gentleness, overturns the law! Well, this is sweet mercy and you seest it not?

  Romeo : 'Tis torture - and not mercy! Heaven is here, where Juliet lives. And every cat and dog and little mouse, every unworthy thing, Living here in heaven and may look on her; but, Romeo may not!