Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours.

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

I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls.

Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

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 am such a diehard romantic. I guess a part of me thinks I am Juliet.

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

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

'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.

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

Romance, eternal love, exists in very few cases. And that's a reality you just have to accept.

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

All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.

Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers.

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

The star-crossed lovers

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

I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

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.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

I had a guy who went out of way to help me get started and somehow saw something in me. I couldn't get my hands on a real guitar till I was fourteen. I always wanted one from the time I was a tiny kid. Music was bigger than life to me.