I was obsessed with Claire Danes because she was Juliet. There is something about her still to this day - she is a brilliant actress. And she did make out with both of my boyfriends.
Sometimes the parallels that are brought in can make the play seem less relevant; you can deny a play's application to the universal by making it too specific. Sometimes having a modern context does make things easier to grasp; sometimes, you go, "Why have they got swords?" "Why didn't Juliet just text Romeo? Why did she bother posting a letter? Why was the Milan post service so bad?" It throws up irrelevant questions that don't help.
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo
Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.
Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.
I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
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 know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75
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.
Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect. ' I call it 'frustration attraction. '
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun. '
Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. "No thanks, I'm not hungry. " "Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet," nodded Trudy sagely. "Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.
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.
Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets. " Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.