Quotes About Romeo And Juliet

#1. Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power' Romeo and Juliet, II, iii

Val McDermid

#2. Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought better of it and took four tablets of soma.
Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.

Aldous Huxley

#3. I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

Sally Field

#4. Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.

Martin Amis

#5. Burke laughed, but there wasn't any humor in his voice. Romeo and Juliet died, son. Consider that all the answer you need.

Joanna Wylde

#6. When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Brenton Thwaites

#7. (I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')

Iris Murdoch

#8. Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)

William Shakespeare

#9. Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

Kelly Blatz

#10. Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. As for my family, Ren was Ren and his family was his family and mine were who they were and usually this would be a Romeo and Juliet type of scenario. But I wasn't big on Shakespeare so my family was also just going to have to deal.

Kristen Ashley

#12. If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Joyce Brothers

#13. I swear, Six is going to kill us, or worse, maybe she's about to be killed by a swarm of Mogs and we're here lying in the grass about to go through a scene from Romeo and Juliet.

Pittacus Lore

#14. I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character.

Douglas Booth

#15. The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

Gabrielle Zevin

#16. Among the accused was the author of Romeo and Juliet, one William Shakespeare.

Neil MacGregor

#17. They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

Stephen King

#18. Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

John Green

#19. When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.

Ashley Wagner

#20. What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Brendan Fraser

#21. We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

Emile Hirsch

#22. Forget Romeo and Juliet. This was much closer to The Taming of the Shrew.

Julia Quinn

#23. I really can't deal with all this lovey-dovey shit. It's like watching Romeo and Juliet on repeat." "Don't they die in the end?" Neal questioned.

J.J. McAvoy

#24. I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#25. It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

Tracy Keenan Wynn

#26. As it was, they had never even managed a successful first date before their romance had gone the way of Romeo and Juliet's
except that Romeo and Juliet didn't wake up the next day, leave the crypt and say, Now what?

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#27. ...we had bypassed Romeo and Juliet and gone straight to Macbeth.

Michael Brooks

#28. You finally find the Scripter and she's an absolute babe. What are the chances? Not to mention, you two actually like one another. It's just amazing, a modern day Romeo and Juliet. But, a rivalry that goes back even longer in history that that story.

Nicole Gulla

#29. When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

Emma Watson

#30. This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're
both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any
questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.

John Marsden

#31. a leading copyright commentator concludes - with good reason - that if Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet were protected by copyright today, the Broadway musical West Side Story might well be found to infringe.

Neil Weinstock Netanel

#32. He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of pentragrams and crystals. Right now she was also wearing giant chandelier earings and a violent pink T-Shirt that bore the words ROMEO AND JULIET WOULDN'T HAVE LASTED.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#33. Sir Kenneth MacMillan's version of 'Romeo and Juliet' is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev's breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin.

Sascha Radetsky

#34. Our story was just like Romeo and Juliet. We were just two kids falling in love. But we didn't have that old Shakespearean insta-kind-of-love. Ours had a lot more to it.

Melissa M. Futrell

#35. No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

Aldous Huxley

#36. With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#37. When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.

Hailee Steinfeld

#38. And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

Julie Taymor

#39. If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

Lloyd Kaufman

#40. I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

Mads Mikkelsen

#41. All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

Ray Winstone

#42. When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet' ... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

Malorie Blackman

#43. Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

Douglas Booth

#44. As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

Marina Lewycka

#45. I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Robert Englund

#46. And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

Anita Loos

#47. I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

Anne Fortier

#48. - Tell us, why has Romeo and Juliet survived four hundred years?
-Because ... because people want to remember what it's like to be young? And in love?

Rainbow Rowell

#49. I wish I could hold the play (Romeo and Juliet) in my hands right now. I want to read it. I want to know that someone else has felt what I feel, even if that person never existed outside one man's imagination.

Kitty Thomas

#50. The Soviets made me change Romeo and Juliet so that it would have a happy ending, a barbarism, because living people can dance, but the dead cannot dance lying down.

Sergey Prokofiev

#51. I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

Ben Kingsley

#52. Love is simply too strong a word to be of much use in ordinary, day-to-day relationships. Love is for Romeo and Juliet.

Kurt Vonnegut

#53. I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

Roxane Gay

#54. You can't fall in love with someone in a day."
"Romeo and Juliet did," Melanie says, tugging me toward the exit.
"Yeah, and then they killed themselves a few hours later. Thanks for the pep talk, Mel.

Chie Aleman

#55. Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A

Sara Shepard

#56. Though what is 'Romeo and Juliet' after all?" he added after a short pause. "The beauty of poetry and holiness of love are simply the roses under which they try to hide its rottenness. Romeo is just the same sort of animal as all the rest of us.

Anton Chekhov

#57. My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K.

Sean Bean

#58. When I was 10, my school did Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet, and that was, like, the biggest deal ever. I was completely obsessed with the role.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#59. There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

Abe Lemons

#60. Isn't that the point of living? To find the one person in all the world who's your perfect match?" "Actually, Taylor, the point of living is not dying. Romeo and Juliet failed at that part.

Leisa Rayven

#61. Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

Chuck Palahniuk

#62. I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Brenton Thwaites

#63. When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

Claire Bloom

#64. Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

Allan Bloom

#65. The two of them became an instant couple. Very Romeo and Juliet without the wonky families and tragic double-suicide thing.

J. Saman

#66. If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

Richard Le Gallienne

#67. From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

Gordon Smith

#68. It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true ... it shows the essence of falling in love.

Jan Harlan

#69. Everyone has to die at some point, so the thought of passing on together while holding hands with my one true love has always sounded like an amazing fairy tale. It reminds me of the old Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet, and of the powerful love they shared.

Shannon Duffy

#70. I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.

Todd Haynes

#71. After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

Clive Owen

#72. I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn ...

Ian Shoales

#73. I can't remember how long it's been since we've seen such a fab show! This was drama-tastic! Better than Romeo and Juliet. Better than The Sound of Music, South Park, Trueblood, Dexter, My Little Pony, and Shrek put together!

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#74. I take the subway all the time here in New York. I love people watching and trying to figure out everybody's background, especially teenagers - they're so uninhibited when they display puppy love. I concoct stories in my mind: 'Are you guys like Romeo and Juliet?'

Sherri Shepherd

#75. I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, 'Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!'

Marjane Satrapi

#76. Think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.

Jodi Picoult

#77. I cast a spell to make me Juliet. It worked. But I forgot that Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. I got what I asked for.

Douglas Rees

#78. Mr. Beaconsfield is the Year Eleven drama teacher. He's one of those teachers who likes being "down with the kids" - all gelled hair and "call me Jeff."He's also the reason our version of Romeo and Juliet is set in a Brooklyn ghetto and Juliet is leaning out of a trailer rather than a balcony.

Zoe Sugg

#79. Walter looked like he could chew nails and still come back for a helping of chain link fence. "Why can't Romeo and Juliet meet in a garden like in Downton Abbey?" Romeo asked. "I mean who meets on a balcony? How real is that?

Suzanne M. Trauth

#80. There has to be some way this won't end in tragedy. Why can't Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after? It's as if the universe won't abide such a strong connection in such a disconnected world, as if our connection defies the natural order.

Kitty Thomas

#81. 'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

Saoirse Ronan

#82. Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?

Adele Griffin

#83. It was like Romeo and Juliet with those two."
"Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy.

Michael Rowe

#84. Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature."
She looked at him questioningly.
"Where would Romeo and Juliet be?"
"Alive.

Julia Quinn

#85. A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

Mason Cooley

#86. It is surely significant, for instance, that Romeo and Juliet was written at around the same time as The Merchant of Venice, a play that is preoccupied with the whole question of freedom of choice and its consequences.4

William Shakespeare

#87. I'm fucked.
We're fucked. Together. Like Romeo and Juliet, only we get to be in a sequel.

Christopher Moore

#88. I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

Rocky Carroll

#89. Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

James Nicoll

#90. Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Ailyn Perez

#91. The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#92. Make no mistake: I love women. I'm married to one, I was birthed by one, and I played one in my high school production of 'Romeo and Juliet.' No one else could fit into the bodice.

Stephen Colbert

#93. If this was love, it felt different than she'd imagined it would, walking a thin line between passion and terror. It was Romeo and Juliet. It was Wuthering Heights. And Val was left petrified from the boiling intensity of it.

Nenia Campbell

#94. I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.

Hailee Steinfeld

#95. If someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and Juliet romance, I would never have believed it. But it wasn't like that summer went at all like I planned in the first place.

Magan Vernon

#96. The problem is that when you change Romeo and Juliet's story it ends up like that ridiculous Taylor Swift song. And that's not what people love about Romeo and Juliet.

Jolene Perry

#97. What did Romeo and Juliet do?"
They died," I remind her gently. "Some mix-up with the poison-

Gordon Korman

#98. Best love story is not Romeo and Juliet but Jesus at Calvary on the Cross.

Evans Biya

#99. No, no. I get it. You had to do it." Kieran's eyes narrowed. "Believe it or not, I'm a sucker for romance. Two star-crossed lovers who don't fit in each other's world. Kind of like Romeo and Juliet - just with fangs.

Jayde Scott

#100. Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

Helen Fisher