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  • What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? -- William Shakespeare
  • Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? -- William Shakespeare
  • I'm nothing like Romeo in real life. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Relax, the bad guys don't knock. (Romeo) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet. -- Susan Beth Pfeffer
  • Under loves heavy burden do I sink.--Romeo -- William Shakespeare
  • What if I were Romeo in black jeans? -- Michael Penn
  • I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo. -- Damian Lewis
  • Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo. -- Richelle Mead
  • I love Alfa Romeos and that [Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio] was tremendous. -- Jeremy Clarkson
  • The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo -- William Shakespeare
  • I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmanns Romeo and Juliet. -- Brenton Thwaites
  • It only takes a Romeo for every girl to become a Juliet. -- M.F. Moonzajer
  • When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat. -- Henry Ford
  • The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then. -- Quindon Tarver
  • I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.' -- Brenton Thwaites
  • Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story. -- James Nicoll
  • A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet. -- Mason Cooley
  • Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet? -- Anne Stuart
  • What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? -- Brendan Fraser
  • Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet) -- William Shakespeare
  • I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet. -- Sally Field
  • I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo. -- Mads Mikkelsen
  • Best love story is not Romeo and Juliet but Jesus at Calvary on the Cross. -- Evans Biya
  • Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me. -- Aaliyah
  • For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. -- William Shakespeare
  • Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short. -- William Shakespeare
  • I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo? -- Bela Lugosi
  • There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Romeo wouldn't change his mind. That's why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers -- Stephenie Meyer
  • I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters. -- Tyler Hoechlin
  • Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride. -- Agatha Christie
  • Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not. -- Ailyn Perez
  • There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. -- Abe Lemons
  • I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name. -- Mickey Rourke
  • Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures. -- Douglas Booth
  • Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great. -- David Carradine
  • What did Romeo and Juliet do?" They died," I remind her gently. "Some mix-up with the poison- -- Gordon Korman
  • Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' -- Helen Fisher
  • Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs! -- Montgomery Clift
  • 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
  • There's an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath. -- Tom Hiddleston
  • After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo. -- Clive Owen
  • I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn... -- Ian Shoales
  • And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? -- Anita Loos
  • If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. -- Joyce Brothers
  • Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo. -- Aaron Yoo
  • I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.' -- Robert Englund
  • Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor. -- Anthony Anderson
  • Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment. -- Allan Bloom
  • I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo. -- William Shakespeare
  • As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families. -- Marina Lewycka
  • I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney addict. -- Kirsten Prout
  • It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo -- William Shakespeare
  • I loved Jared Leto. My So-Called Life, that was my jam. And Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet. Every 14-year-old girl was obsessed with that. -- Jodi Sweetin
  • Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times... -- Marisha Pessl
  • 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
  • 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
  • I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor. -- Alessandro Nivola
  • Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days. -- Jesse Harris
  • Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days. -- Jesse Harris
  • 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
  • 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
  • I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering. -- David Harewood
  • 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
  • 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
  • People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet! -- Deborah Bull
  • 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
  • I actually got to stay and watch the filming of different parts of the movie [Romeo+Juliet]. I got to meet some of the co-stars, like John Leguizamo. -- Quindon Tarver
  • 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
  • I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
  • 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
  • Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think. -- Taylor Swift
  • After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs. -- Anne Fortier
  • 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
  • Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens. -- Alan Cumming
  • '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
  • 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
  • Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo. -- Kid Rock
  • If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer. -- Gary D. Schmidt
  • 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
  • I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia. -- Daniel Bruhl
  • Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me. -- Kevin Durand
  • 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
  • I think when I was 12, when, like, 'Titanic' and 'Romeo + Juliet' came out, my friends and I made our own Leonardo DiCaprio fan club. I definitely had a thing for him. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
  • Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true. -- William Shakespeare
  • 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
  • I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over. -- Sean Connery
  • 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
  • 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
  • He was really having a hard time with this. He was not a seductive kind of guy, and if he tried to be sexy, he was going to sound like Romeo, the porn version. -- Erin McCarthy
  • What I've always loved about watching movies myself of course that's [Bas] Luhrmann. His Moulin Rouge! is incredible, his Romeo + Juliet. Wow. You know. When I saw those, those really were transformative films for me. -- Fredrik Bond
  • Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not. -- William Shakespeare
  • 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
  • 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
  • O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo - -- William Shakespeare
  • 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
  • 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
  • His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he murmured, and I recognized the line spoken by Romeo in the tomb. -- Stephenie Meyer
  • 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
  • All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, thats 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. -- William Shakespeare
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture. -- Joel Silver
  • I was really excited because I had never ever in my life done anything like this [Romeo + Juliette], and at such a young age it was like, "Wow, my dreams are coming true, I'm already in a movie at the age of 12." -- Quindon Tarver
  • I guess they still show the movie in school, so around the time of movie showing, my Facebook inbox and my Instagram DM is flooded. "Are you the Quindon Tarver from the movie Romeo + Juliet? Oh my god, you did a great job." -- Quindon Tarver
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  • Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion. -- Oscar Wilde
  • A rap pro, do a show, good to go, also Cameo afro, Virgo, domino, I go Rambo, Gigolo, Romeo, Friday night spend money on a ho...tel, To get a good night's sleep, I'm keeping in step. Now do I come off? Yep. -- Big Daddy Kane
  • You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far. -- Bill Parcells
  • I've played Romeo for Juliet(But in depth)It's vignettes of silhouettes(And then read)And watched Russian roulette, yeah red SovietYet doing it simultaneouslyWhile dropping down shed oubliettesTurned around and took truth to the head thatLove is the ugliest thing too beautiful for death -- Criss Jami
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