After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.'
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.
I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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.
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?
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.
OH ROMEO. THOU ART ROMEO. WILL YOU MARRY ME. THOU ART ROMEO.
A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.
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!'
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
I was Juliet and Quinn was Romeo, and the lines weren't dead black-and-white words on a page but somehow alive, as natural and real as the argument we'd had about the spider and the fly. The rows of empty seats were gone, and we were in a candlelit b...
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 paral...
Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.
