The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra. — Leslie Caron Copy Share Image
“That something is not impossible does not mean that it happened.” — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Cleopatra was exhausting to play, but also completely exhilarating. She creates her own energy. — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. (Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare.)” — Sarah Stuart Copy Share Image
“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
“Death, well done, is a gateway from this world into another. It needn’t be the end of anything. - Cleopatra” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know. — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Cleopatra: I will not have love as my master. Marc Anthony: Then you will not have love. - from the 1963 disaster… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
“THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I'm not an encyclopedia of ancient Egyptian history, but women did hold positions of status in ancient Egypt. Obviously, famously, people like… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“It would be difficult to say to whom Cleopatra was more vital in 32: the man to whom she was the partner,… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“I loved him so, even his past was precious to me. I found myself kissing each mark, thinking, I would have had… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See How I convey my shame out of thine eyes By looking back what I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The personal inevitably trumps the political, and the erotic trumps all: We will remember that Cleopatra slept with Julius Caesar and Mark… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“In her palace at Alexandria, Cleopatra begins her final night. The last of the pharaohs, who was not as beautiful as they… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“In the silence, I can hear Phoinix’s breaths, labored with the exertion of speaking so long. I do not dare to speak… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Que ella que con su muerte le dice a nuestro César: "Me conquisté yo misma".” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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