Top 232 Romeo Quotes & Sayings

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

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 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.

I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

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.

What if I were Romeo in black jeans?

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

While composing the music for 'Romeo,' I will be very versatile.

If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

There’s an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.

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

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

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

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

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.

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

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.

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

Romeo was cute …” “Cute?” Alessandro rolled his eyes. “What kind of man is cute?” “… and an excellent dancer …” “Romeo had feet of lead! He said so himself!” “… but most importantly,” I concluded, “he had nice hands!

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.

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

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.

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

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

Relax, the bad guys don’t knock. (Romeo)

Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet.

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

Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

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

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

Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn't let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to "Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?" was not "In the men's room, Julie.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!

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.

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

This Romeo character is something I decided to create, like my alter ego. So the name Romeo was invented from the original Romeo and Juliet. I wanted to show people I'm like a modern Romeo.

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

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

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!'

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