Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Leonardo DiCaprio: Romeo

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• Romeo : [upon first sight of Juliet]  Did my heart love 'til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'til this night.

• Romeo : If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this. My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  Juliet : Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this. For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

  Romeo : Have not saints lips, and holy palmers, too?

  Juliet : Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

  Romeo : Well, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

  Juliet : Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

  Romeo : Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

  Romeo : [They kiss]  Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.

  Juliet : Then have my lips the sin that they have took?

  Romeo : Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

  Juliet : [they kiss again]  You kiss by the book.

• Romeo : I defy you, stars!

• Romeo : Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

  Mercutio : If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.

• Romeo : I dreamt a dream tonight.

  Mercutio : And so did I.

  Romeo : And what was yours?

  Mercutio : That dreamers often lie.

  Mercutio : O! Then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and comes in a shape no bigger than an agate-stone, on the fore-finger of an alderman, drawn with a little team of atomies, over men's noses as they lie asleep. Her chariot is an empty hazelnut. Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat. And in this state, she gallops, night by night, through lovers' brains and then they dream of... love! O'er lawyers fingers who straight dream on fees. Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, and then dreams he of cutting foreign throats. And then, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two and sleeps again.

  [becoming more passionate] 

  Mercutio : This is the hag, when maids lie on their BACKS, that presses them! And learns them first to bear, making them women of good carriage! This is she! THIS IS SHE!

• Romeo : But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Rise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon... who's already sick and pale with grief that thou have made her far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it.

• Romeo : Tempt not a desperate man!

• Juliet : O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.

  Romeo : Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

  Juliet : 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, thou art thyself though not a Montague. What is Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. Oh, what's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet; so Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection to which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name! And for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself.

• Juliet : O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, who monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

  Romeo : What shall I swear by?

  Juliet : Do not swear at all. Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, which is the god of my idolatry, and I'll believe thee.

• Romeo : Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!

• Romeo : Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.

• Romeo : The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law.

• Romeo : He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

• Romeo : O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?

  Juliet : What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?

  Romeo : The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.

  Juliet : I gave thee mine before thou didst request it!

• Romeo : I am Fortune's fool!

• Romeo : Be satisfied!

• Romeo : I am forgetful.

• Romeo : [to Tybalt]  Either thou, or I, or both must go with him!

• Romeo : Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

• Romeo : He that hath the steerage of my course, direct my sail!

• Romeo : Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.

• Romeo : [refusing to fight]  Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.

• Juliet : [in swimming pool]  If they do see thee they will murder thee.

  Romeo : I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes, but thou love me, let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued... wanting of thy love.

• Romeo : [Romeo has arrived at the church and walks to lie next to the unmoving Juliet on the alter]  My Love, my Life. Death is upon thy breath and yet not thy beauty. Thou are not conquered yet, this beauty is in thy lips and thy cheeks and deaths pale flag has not been conquered there. Dear Juliet, why are thou so fair? Should I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous, keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour? Here, oh here will I stay with thee; and never from this place of dim night depart again: here, here I will remain. Eyes look at last, let me take one last embrace, and lips only to the doors to breath and seal with a righteous kiss.

  [he kisses her] 

• Benvolio : Why, Romeo, art thou mad?

  Romeo : Not mad, but bound more than a mad man is. Shut up in prison, kept without my food, whipped and tormented.

• [after Mercutio's death, Romeo is out for revenge on Tybalt] 

  Romeo : Mercutio's soul is but a little way above our heads! Staying for thrine to keep him company!

  Tybalt : Thou wretched boy shalt with him hence!

  Romeo : Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him! Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him! Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him!

  [Romeo pushes Tybalt back, making him drop his gun. Romeo picks it up and starts screaming while firing it at Tybalt, killing him. Tybalt's body falls into the water, Romeo's tears starts shedding while thunder is heard. He looks at Tybalt's gun and drops it. The rain starts pouring] 

  Romeo : [screams at the statue]  I AM FORTUNE'S FOOL!