Cleopatra igt Quotes

“You must make a choice,” the Goddess said.“Is that my only choice – to choose between men?” I asked. “I want what Mother had!”“Your mother chose two men,” she said with light laughter.“No! She chose independence for her country. She chose power and freedom,” I yelled.Almost as if in response, a pulsating energy moved up from the ground into my bare feet. It thrummed up my body and radiated out in a bright light, first from my toes, then from my fingertips, then the top of my head.“I choose power,” I said. “I choose freedom.”

“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.”

“CLEOPATRA: My salad days,When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,To say as I said then! But, come, away;Get me ink and paper:He shall have every day a several greeting,Or I'll unpeople Egypt.”

“These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories”

“Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to return to the same stage six months later playing a lead role, was incredible - I fell in love with the poetry and the breadth of the language so much that I didn't want it to end.”

“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”

“If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed.”

“Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.”

“If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.”