Top 208 Juliet Quotes & Sayings

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?

I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'

When I was in high school, I fell in love with Olivia Hussey in 'Romeo And Juliet.'

Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?

I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.

I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmanns Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.

When she offered me 'Arshinagar,' Aparna's interpretation of 'Romeo & Juliet,' my first instinct was to say no.

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

I've always said that 'Dharma and Greg' is 'Romeo and Juliet' meets 'The Odd Couple.'

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!'

Romeo and Juliet' is two love addicts acting out, and look how that ended.

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

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75

I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

Hail, blest Confusion! here are met All tongues, and times, and faces; The Lancers flirt with Juliet, The Brahmin talks of races.

I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto expletive. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs are against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff.

It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.

You go see a great production of 'Romeo and Juliet,' where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.

Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry. You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die". There's a place for us, you know the movie song. When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

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.

Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo is standing on the ground looking longingly at Juliet on the balcony above him? One of the most romantic moments in all of literary history? Peach says there's no way that Romeo was standing down there to profess his undying devotion. The truth, Peach says, is that Romeo was just trying to look up Juliet's skirt.

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.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet.

Juliet is the east and i am the sun.

Certainly in the case of 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' if it makes children or adults a little more interested in Shakespeare, there's nothing wrong with that!

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.

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

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

I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius.

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

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

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

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

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

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.

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.

Olivia Hussey from Zefferelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' makes the intense vulnerability of true love look magnificent.

I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet. Romeo is a much cooler way to be - Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting.

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.

When I found out that I was going be Juliet, it felt much more real than 'Manon,' because 'Manon' is one of those ballets that you probably do after Juliet, so that never really sunk in to be honest.

Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.

'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Manon,' 'Giselle' - they are not stupid stories. They have fantastic characters. They have a big package of emotion.

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life of everyone - you and I, for example. 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.

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

I don't know under what lighting I can play Juliet. Maybe with a small night light illuminating the stage.

The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?" "Yeah. That was awesome." A pause, followed by "Ow," suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. "Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.

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