Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)

Actors

• Derek Jacobi (actor)
• Ben Gibson (actor)
• Ben Gibson (producer)
• Ryûichi Sakamoto (composer)
• Tilda Swinton (actress)
• Daniel Craig (actor)
• Antony Cotton (actor)
• Adrian Scarborough (actor)
• Karl Johnson (actor)
• Robert Hoyland (actor)
• Daniel Goddard (editor)
• John Maybury (writer)
• John Maybury (director)
• Annie Symons (costume designer)
• Annie Symons (actress)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama

Taglines:

Study for a portrait of Francis Bacon.

Quotes:

Francis Bacon: Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Actors

• Leo G. Carroll (actor)
• Bette Davis (actress)
• Henry Daniell (actor)
• Errol Flynn (actor)
• Donald Crisp (actor)
• Alan Hale (actor)
• Forrester Harvey (actor)
• Holmes Herbert (actor)
• I. Stanford Jolley (actor)
• Vincent Price (actor)
• Henry Stephenson (actor)
• Ralph Forbes (actor)
• John Sutton (actor)
• Robert Warwick (actor)
• Olivia de Havilland (actress)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama
• History
• Romance

Taglines:

Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.

Quotes:

Queen Elizabeth I: ...the necessities of a queen must transcend those of a woman.

Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex: [after being slapped hard by Queen Elizabeth I] I would not have taken that from your father the King; much less will I take it from a king in petticoats!

Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex: And now, may I go? This dying sticks in my mind and makes me poor company.

Queen Elizabeth I: And when he takes you in his arms again, thank heaven you are not a queen.::Mistress Margaret Radcliffe: But I thought to be a queen...::Queen Elizabeth I: To be a Queen is to be less than human, to put pride before desire, to search Men's hearts for tenderness, and find only ambition. To cry out in the dark for one unselfish voice, to hear only the dry rustle of papers of state. To turn to one's beloved with stars for eyes and have him see behind me only the shadow of the executioner's block. A queen has no hour for love, time presses, and events crowd upon her, and her shell, an empty glittering husk, she must give up all the a woman holds most dear.

Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player (1916)

Actors

• Florence La Badie (actress)
• Edwin Thanhouser (producer)
• Frederick Sullivan (director)
• Robert Vaughn (actor)
• Robert Whittier (actor)
• Lawrence Swinburne (actor)

Genres

• Drama

Bacon, Francis Filmography

• The Colony
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Bacon's Arena
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Astley's Way
  2001, role: actor
• Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider
  1994, role: miscellaneous crew
• Francis Bacon
  1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
  1987, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Heads
  1969, role: actor

Famous quotes by Francis Bacon:

"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."

"Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

"Science is but an image of the truth."

"Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested."

"It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians."

"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."

"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience."

"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."

"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."

"The remedy is worse than the disease."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."