800+ Best Romantic Quotes

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends. Orlando Bloom

German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although
Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know
who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.
Janeane Garofalo

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its
destination full of hope. Maya Angelou

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love
it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and
shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in
Paris.' P. J. O'Rourke

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus
tights contains all the secrets of the universe. Tom Robbins

I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic
components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs
that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more
stories than that. Greta Gerwig

I'm pretty romantic. Douglas Booth

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch
tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was
younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player. M. Ward

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political,
saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not
afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.' Orhan Pamuk

I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling. Fergie

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. Paul
Simon

I've done a few old-style romantic leads now. Richard Madden

Maybe I don't see enough television, but it seems there aren't many shows that are romantic
comedies that are an hour long where you're not solving a crime or being a doctor. Elizabeth
Reaser
I always like to read something romantic about the place I'm visiting. Anouska Hempel

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. Billy Strayhorn

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot. Rory Stewart

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s. Geri Halliwell

It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by
Vincent Gallo. It's about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open
yourself up to ultimately being hurt. Jim Sturgess

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into
them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul,
but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them. Alice McDermott

My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater
Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and
he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it
into a romantic comedy. Talulah Riley

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. Douglas Horton

Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching
her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the
things I bring to the table. Giada De Laurentiis

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with
and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think
she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy. Harry
Connick, Jr.

I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it. Rachel Bilson

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a
while you get something that is balanced for two people. Sandra Bullock

The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements
that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a
character actor. Gary Sinise

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We
need it. Jamie Oliver

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages. David Fincher
After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late
husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits - all the spoils and the
special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic. Cilla
Black

To me, little Mike Wazowski is one of the best characters I ever got to play because he was
funny. He was outrageous. He got angry. He was romantic. He was a full, well-rounded
character. Billy Crystal

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly
difficult genre for me. Carter Burwell

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but
they are very passionate, very romantic. Brooke Burke

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees
and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who
consider themselves level-headed. Dick Cavett

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I will never create a romantic angle to survive on a game show. Karishma Tanna

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become
friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. Andrew Sullivan

You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't
impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in
periodically. Harold Prince

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long
as necessary to raise your baby. Helen Fisher

I'm a horrible romantic! Jamie Campbell Bower

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships,
for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a
lesson to be learned from them. Jason Mraz

I happen to be really a romantic. Amanda Seyfried

If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different
parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic. Kevin Bacon

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any
shape or form. Jaime Camil

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic
at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it. Jeremy Renner

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could
escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement
of the establishment. Peter Wright

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of
their twenties. Lena Dunham

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would
definitely choose to not write and live. Sarah McLachlan

'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly
bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first
kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.
Luanne Rice

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.
Leslie Mann

For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment
by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy
emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating
someone, and it was very exciting and romantic. Adrian Tomine

I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for
me. No more screaming or running or shooting... for one movie where I can just be in love with a
boy. Serinda Swan

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. Henry Ward
Beecher

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment
is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be
replaced and reinforced by things that do. Mary Archer

Everything is just so much more romantic and real when it's yours and it's private. Dove
Cameron

I'm personally a hopeless romantic. I always have been. Brett Young

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the
romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films. Rosario
Dawson

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such
movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists. Mariella
Frostrup

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of
the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write
romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic. Sophie Kinsella

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. Bernard Williams

My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two
people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV,
movies, personal essays; everything. Taylor Jenkins Reid

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We
spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate
a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary. Mariella
Frostrup

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look
foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws
with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
Ashton Kutcher

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship
to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and
why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. Jennifer Aniston

I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if
someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or
something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy,
I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic. Chelsea Peretti

There is no instinct like that of the heart. Lord Byron

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates
the conductor; we do not remember him in it. Igor Stravinsky

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in
love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me. Alejandro Gonzalez
Inarritu

It's tough to do a romantic scene with someone you don't like. I have been lucky so far. Sidharth
Malhotra
These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring
out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in
Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it. Rachel Kushner

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic
comedy. I think we've all been there. James Gray

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like,
twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing. Jennifer Love Hewitt

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized,
and sold off piece by piece. Yeardley Smith

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I can sing in various genres, but my heart truly lies in singing romantic songs. This has been my
forte ever since I was 8 or 9. Armaan Malik

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. Lynda Barry

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or
Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was
Tommy Cooper. Alfred Molina

I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why
you can't be the only girl for me. Maluma

I don't think of myself as a romantic person; I'm kind of more rough and tumble, I think. The
things I'm drawn to are outdoorsy, I only get dressed up when I have to. I'm drawn to women
who are into the same type of thing. If you're going to call it romantic, I'm very spontaneous.
That's probably the best thing I have going for me. Paul Walker

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a
romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic. Shane
Carruth

We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then
each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan. Emma
McLaughlin

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a
romantic, and I always have been. Portia de Rossi

Almost every story has a romantic angle to it. Fawad Khan

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's
the way it's sort of working out. Jack Lowden

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but
the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed
in their personal relations. Stephen Lang

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with. Jeremy London

I think I'm a romantic person, yeah. Antonio Banderas

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and
Romantic art. Sylvester Stallone

I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave. Telly Savalas

I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started
going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes. Florence
Welch

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's
often considered desperate or psycho. Sarah Jessica Parker

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars
is not only sexy, it's romantic. Benjamin Bratt

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence,
twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. Halle Berry

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a
bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial
sweeteners. James Wolcott

I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally' is kind
of a benchmark for me, but I'm very happy to admit that I love 'Pretty Woman.' I do! It's a great
film, and so is 'Sixteen Candles.' I was a big John Hughes fan - still am. I have moments where I
have to watch a Hughes film. Jamie Dornan

I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most
critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each
other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved.
Forgiveness is required. Bill Clegg

It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even
know that well. Sophie B. Hawkins

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on,
well, maybe. Morgan Freeman

There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole
myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean
out a dog bite. Ethan Canin

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to
know how to pamper their women properly. Danica McKellar

I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose. Russell Tovey

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're
no longer the scary creature in the dark. Stephen Graham Jones

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love. Jennifer Lopez

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part
that would have made you sick if you could have heard it. Louis C. K.

'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is
about these two characters and their relationships. Henry Ian Cusick

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling
someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' Warren Buffett

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a
hammer to it. Gerard Way

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Margaret Anderson

I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats
and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan. Graham Elliot

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to
be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it
was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner. Steve
Martin

You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of
romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly
detrimental effect on our cache of love stories. Mariella Frostrup
If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in
the early days. Alain de Botton

A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight. Edward VIII

I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called
'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the
film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in
Shanghai. Eliza Coupe

A man's kiss is his signature. Mae West

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Romantic stuff is not something I really remember. Darius Rucker

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to
learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the
romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. David Coverdale

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then
start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. Julie Delpy

Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the
other becomes more depressed. Karen Salmansohn

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us,
we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous
and romantic. Mary Wortley Montagu

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -
because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for
sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. John Green

Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship
have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better. Chris Martin

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time. Max Muller

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to
his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long
way with him. D. H. Lawrence

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our
losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds. Maeve Binchy
At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scratch or
scribble or looks like a doctor's note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type
something, there's something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that. Meghan Markle

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies
well. Jodie Foster

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very
human. Lena Dunham

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Christopher
Marlowe

Kiss me and you will see how important I am. Sylvia Plath

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert
Redford are still landing parts. Charles Dance

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It
can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running
through it. Susanna Kearsley

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past,
generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical and emphasized wine as a romantic,
historic beverage. Criticism and comparative tastings were eschewed for fear of offending the
trade, which most writers depended upon for survival. Robert M. Parker, Jr.

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies.
There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing. Damien Chazelle

I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic
rocker. Luis Fonsi

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could
make. Alain de Botton

America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then
I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why
was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic
temperament. Ian Frazier

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to
talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable
person. Naomi Watts

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the
biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the
breath mints! Alice Englert

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
Joaquin Phoenix

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never. Kristen Wiig

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems
romantic. Doug Liman

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. Oscar Isaac

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. Robert Herrick

I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's
Day makes no sense. Alia Bhatt

Death was like love, a romantic escape. Brigitte Bardot

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'180' is a romantic film, but I don't think it can be classified as a fluffy love story. It is a
wonderful story with a script that is layered and more complex than the normal ones. Nithya
Menen

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor. Matthew Macfadyen

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about
doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing. Nick Cave

In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most
magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play. Alice McDermott

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and
playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot. Matt McGorry

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between
people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that,
to celebrate that, you know? Emeli Sande

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men. George Hamilton

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing,
most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's
all relationships. Spike Jonze

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. Rupert
Brooke

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Norman Jewison

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I
became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way. Billy Dee Williams

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is
probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of
how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable
of doing. Rachel Cusk

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side. Don Johnson

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they
are attracted to each other. Amanda Peet

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says
something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you
start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life. Michael
Patrick King

I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very
productive, yet I always find time to play. Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot
of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the
romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger
siblings. Walter Dean Myers

I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film
where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't
get that. Rachel McAdams

I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That
would be good. Dash Mihok
I am a romantic, I admit it. Keith Jarrett

I'd like to do a romantic comedy. Aaron Eckhart

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic. Jurgen Klopp

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially
the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap;
he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. Joni
Mitchell

The audiences know their actors. Didn't Shah Rukh Khan have a romantic image despite playing
a dad in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?' Karan Patel

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I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy -
a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because
I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian. Mike Birbiglia

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free
to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for
sexual activity. Kate Millett

Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family,
that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I
love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship. Yami Gautam

I'm from L.A., so I'm used to seeing people in sunglasses and flip-flops. There's something so
romantic about a man in a scarf and a knitted hat. Meghan Markle

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. Joan Armatrading

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's
the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. Fran
Lebowitz

I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or
romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting
to try. Jeff Giles

I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding. Lance Bass

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films. Corey Hart

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you. Michelle Trachtenberg

Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes
a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true. Roxane Gay

It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need
to look after yourself. Douglas Booth

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about. Alan Bennett

I have been doing a lot of romantic movies, so such roles don't excite me much now. I would like
to play an out-and-out, really cruel villain once. My character in 'Da Thadiya' had such a streak,
but I want a full length villainous role. It is a different kind of excitement. Nivin Pauly

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly
romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til
death do us part was a much different deal. Debra Messing

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship. Pedro Almodovar

An excellent wine, someone's best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table
can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event. Letitia Baldrige

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you
could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent
Van Gogh Jr. Bill Griffith

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance
painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a
Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism. Alessandro
Michele

'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy. Woody Harrelson

I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just
the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each
other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling. Kim Barnouin

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the
most versatile thing. Catherine Deneuve

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and
Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
Edward Burns
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker,
Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. Jean-Michel
Basquiat

I may have played romantic roles, but each character has been different, with his own
personality. Fawad Khan

My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I
just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic
side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat. J. K. Simmons

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am,
actually. Helena Bonham Carter

I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James
Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even
necessarily disco. Mike D

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the
worlds of both science fiction and science fact. Thomas Mallon

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl'
or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast. Sienna Miller

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really
unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking
place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. Chuck Palahniuk

I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the
romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were
clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to. Jacqueline Bisset

The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly
romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side. Luis Fonsi

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
Robin Wright

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you.
Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there. James McAvoy

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end,
diminishes the reality. Marya Mannes

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I don't think anybody at the major studios is rushing to offer me a romantic lead. Judge Reinhold

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in
their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely
hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing. Susanna Kearsley

I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people
falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. 'Enough Said' had that stuff, but I wanted it
to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality. Nicole Holofcener

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk. Marc Jacobs

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless
romantic. Randeep Hooda

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all
that stuff. Thomas Jane

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.
Vanessa Hudgens

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight
months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic
notions about it. Morgan Freeman

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies. Rutina
Wesley

I was blinded by being a romantic person. Sienna Miller

I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and
in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic
relationship. Sam Yagan

In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the
same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying. Walt Mossberg

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
Morris Chestnut

I'm a very romantic person. Esai Morales

My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every

Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and
my sister. That was something you could count on every year. Josh Turner
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I
expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the
eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins. Bayard
Taylor

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
Keeley Hawes

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a
formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was
rejected. Louise Brown

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else
when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas
Moore

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written
Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-
received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so
inept. Gary Lineker

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and
a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators. Joseph Barbera

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen
Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic. Walter
Dean Myers

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring
you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. Joan Chen

I'm such a romantic at heart. Morten Tyldum

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a
Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and
you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do
something else. J. K. Simmons

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are
really the opposite of that. Lydia Millet

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner
intuition, an inner 'yes.' I don't know if it's destined or not, but certainly I couldn't imagine being
the person I am today without the romantic experiences I've had. Alden Ehrenreich

Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing
in the rain. Mollie King

I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films.
But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is
more important than notoriety. Nargis Fakhri

I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea of
sharing your life with the right person is amazing, actually. Monica Lewinsky

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really
see such stark lines between genres nowadays. Beck

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their
own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them. Mariella Frostrup

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.
Andrea Riseborough

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself
for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience. Mariella Frostrup

As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings. Mary Kay Andrews

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them
historically have ever been romantic. Harold Prince

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic
comedies. Sandra Bullock

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic
comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing. Hugh Grant

The most impactful place that I've been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved
is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic
place in the world. Hill Harper

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees,
and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting. Isabella Rossellini

With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing
becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the
gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller. Noreena Hertz

I am a huge romantic at heart. Armaan Malik

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I
guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot. Sia

I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and
beautiful place. Alan Furst

All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we? Kapil Sibal

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find
their ways to twist it and tweak it. Greg Berlanti

Best Romantic Quotes

My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.
Kimberly Schlapman

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the
mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-
formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction. Jerry Saltz

I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one
can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand
gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover. Taylor Jenkins Reid

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt. Paul Lynde

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. William Blake

It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling. Bobbie Ann Mason

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time. Felicity Jones

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built
around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with. Jane Campion

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next
step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike
canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a
dream, he never saw it. Joyce Carol Oates

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. Samuel Butler

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are
talented, and charismatic and stuff. Heather Graham

Upsi is definitely the more romantic of the two. I am more laid back. We do have our differences
of opinion sometimes. Upsi is always the first one to break the ice after an argument or a
difference of opinion. That's what I love most about her. Ram Charan

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. Eric McCormack

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy. Josh Hutcherson

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they
do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. Oscar Wilde

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for
that these days, but that's what I go for. Andre Holland

Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably
suits you better to go out for dinner. But I love cooking and always have. Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our
dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real
world. Mariella Frostrup

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career
choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as
long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job. Charles
Saatchi

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank
Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs. Dick Dale

In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama. Sydney
Pollack

I've heard stories about movies that are really maybe difficult and really dramatic and good, but
they are being sold as romantic comedies. All it's going to do is just... that's hurting the work,
because that just makes it impossible for anyone to see it correctly. Shane Carruth

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. Mignon McLaughlin

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic
scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot. Sanjay Dutt

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's
like having a family with a lot of children. Renzo Piano

I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and
things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-
on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to
music and cry or whatever. Tavi Gevinson
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American
history. Frank Waters

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic
comedy can drive me nuts. Jason Reitman

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure,
romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing. Anne
Frank

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,'
'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a
sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. Chuck Palahniuk

Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in
implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result
being neither romantic nor comedic. Edward Zwick

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy
understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had
flowers and candles all over the room. Jennifer Lopez

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to
lay down his life that makes him romantic. Ann Voskamp

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it
was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment. Jo
Brand

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where
they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond. Lenny Abrahamson

As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable doing a
romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I do it a lot better than I ever did.
I've really opened up a lot. And I'm glad I have because I'm being appreciated for it. Sanjay Dutt

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic
comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end. Fiona Apple

The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys
of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball. David Grann

I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies. Romeo Miller

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters. Conrad
Hall

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same
thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I
can't sit still. Ginnifer Goodwin

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative
themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic,
countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. Walter Isaacson

Best Romantic Quotes

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is
what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel
between the work and the artist. Michael Haneke

What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the
reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre
itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest,
refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie. Lake Bell

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic. Katharine McPhee

I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling
Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very
well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
Jaime Camil

Many times an actor is stuck for the lack of choices. The same happened with me when I started
my career. That was the time when mainly romantic films were being made, and that is what I
was offered all the time. Arjun Rampal

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war. Martin McGuinness

I am an incurable romantic. I am even in love with the idea of being in love, and hence, I write a
lot of love songs. Adnan Sami

I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic. Adam Levine

I'm a bit of a romantic. Eric Bana

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and
romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.
Brittany Murphy

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid. Ali
MacGraw

All the windows of my heart I open to the day. John Greenleaf Whittier

For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized,
romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian
culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's
best for the community - you procreate. Aasif Mandvi

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone
or take them for granted. Monica Bellucci

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.
Hugh Grant

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read
Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about
romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to
do that to each other. Feist

I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see
romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling. Sam Hunt

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man. Gene Tierney

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max Eastman

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy. Norman
Jewison

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult
on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs,
you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?' Gillian Jacobs

I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains. Nicholas Stoller

We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a
fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the
way to my heart. Gary Lineker

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding
the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. Italo Calvino
I am eagerly waiting to play the lead role in a romantic show! I have such a strong role in 'Balika
Vadhu,' but none of the guys in the show romance me on screen. Roop Durgapal

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. Walter
Hagen

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. William Makepeace
Thackeray

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind. Leelee Sobieski

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em. John
Cusack

A good romantic comedy is my favorite movie to watch. Nicholas Stoller

I seem to be drawn to the really romantic songs. Vonda Shepard

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. Fred Durst

I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead,
but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.
Dennis Farina

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or
sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy. David
Schwimmer

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It
was just so glamorous and romantic. Loni Anderson

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can
participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you
might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please. Stephen Graham Jones

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to
be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy. Patrick Swayze

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view,
they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their
notions of chivalry and bravery and justice. James Weldon Johnson

I am still a hard-core romantic. Divyanka Tripathi

Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a
romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It
suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life. Bill Pullman

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution
of emphasis between man and nature. Cyril Connolly

Best Romantic Quotes

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic
comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And
then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money
and status. Gwyneth Paltrow

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's
first meeting. John Sandford

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his
mother out for dinner. Jennifer Saunders

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just
because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is
whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. Sebastian Faulks

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope
that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of
my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the
characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply. Rachel McAdams

I'm a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will
get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad
right now!' Alison Sweeney

Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble
with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies. John C. Reilly

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're
irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there. Helen Fisher

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen,
because it makes your heart ache so much watching it. Natalie Portman

I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women
usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why
the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way
those movies go. Katie Aselton
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. Matthew Macfadyen

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility
may become the rule. Anita Brookner

I'm a romantic guy. Fred Durst

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. Katharine Lee Bates

I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have
a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely
important to have someone make you feel special. Hilary Duff

I'm really a romantic at heart. Christopher Atkins

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of
time on metaphor. Jeanne Marie Laskas

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going
well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out. Jennifer Love Hewitt

I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little
creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and
fathers feel that way. Anne-Marie Duff

Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue,
and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of
hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy. Susanne Bier

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
Rachel Hunter

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life. Dar Williams

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very
conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is
when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale. Rachel McAdams

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world. Wes Anderson

With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to
be smiling throughout. Rainbow Rowell

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier
and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior. Julie
Delpy

As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just
have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward. Gillian Jacobs

The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you
make them, they already look so aged. Rupert Friend

I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.
Rosamund Pike

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that. Alex Turner

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of
true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Suzanne Brockmann

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a
wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7. Charles Kuralt

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star. Oscar Hammerstein II

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic. Kim Kardashian

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back
to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to. Saoirse Ronan

If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where
we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our
hotel room and enjoy each other's company. Jean Reno

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've
really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.
Nigel Cole

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and
adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example. Hanna Rosin

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic
comedy one day. James Wan

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I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol,
but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge.
Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work. John Logan

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary.
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both
classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and
unconscious. Henry Moore

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The
whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such
disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again. Rebecca Romijn

I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but
whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic
comedies have a love triangle or something. Catherine Hardwicke

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic. Chris Lowell

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love. Diane Kruger

I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day
relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls
apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no
definitions, there's no labels. Elizabeth Meriwether

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes. Ella Maillart

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we
grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.
Patti Stanger

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing. Rebecca Hall

Romance is everything. Gertrude Stein

I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what
the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play
professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I
still want Bambi to make it out of the fire. Gary Paulsen

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the
atmosphere of paradise. Victor Hugo

I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's
Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
Gabriella Wilde

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but
it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. Jane
Campion

The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You
couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language.
There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses. Ian Mckellen

I love a good romantic comedy. Joss Whedon

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. Dorothy L. Sayers

I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and
all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody
doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell. Dennis Quaid

I'm more likely to give you a cuddle than a punch in the face. I have a soft side, especially with
my girlfriend. I send her flowers and use my culinary skills to pull off romantic meals. I do great
Thai dishes. Jai Courtney

I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first. Vinnie Jones

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level
you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an
enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I
might actually lose everything. Rachael Taylor

I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about
individuality, and in a way, it's romantic. Alessandro Michele

I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance,
romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be
fantastic. Dash Mihok

I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way. Betty White

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There
can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising. Gus Van Sant

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. William
Butler Yeats

Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date -
sharing a romantic meal is so sexy. Carmen Electra
I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic
madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged,
where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute. Holly Black

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second
commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many
skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been
through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire. Gary Paulsen

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite
holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that
comes out. Jennifer Love Hewitt

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just
romantic things. Bai Ling

I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home.
So I did this whole romantic setup in our bedroom with flowers and rose petals. She was so mad
when she got home, but then when she walked in, she was so surprised. Trey Songz

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll
come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for
me, an oxymoron. Christian Bale

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy. James
Earl Jones

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy,
but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content
starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that. R. Kelly

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the
outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat. Joe
DiMaggio

My personal style changes wherever I am. When I'm in Ibiza, I'm a bit girlier because there's an
opportunity to be more romantic and dress up for the beach scene. Whereas in New York, I tend
to go for suiting and tailoring that almost feels like weaponry for the city - but I think I'm quite
playful no matter what. Jade Jagger
It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy. Taylor Swift

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful
product of Soviet patriotic education. Vladimir Putin

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who
I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. Victoria Jackson

The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there,
and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience
because I didn't intend it to be that way. Rufus Wainwright

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And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic
film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Norman Jewison

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it,
and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. Laurence Housman

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
Sidney Poitier

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be
a day about romantic love. Ayelet Waldman

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed
romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that
smile back at me. Nicholas Haslam

I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode,
Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo. John Grant

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a
TV reality show. Uma Thurman

I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment. Jesse L. Martin

Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in
their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes
back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his
woman. Stephen Moyer

I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and
watching romantic comedies. Ricki-Lee Coulter

I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were
very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me. Paula
Hawkins

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his
core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and
wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law
if he thinks the ends justify the means. Ruth Glick

A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple. Tzipi Livni

'Perfect Sense' is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and
emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie - where
seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination. David
MacKenzie

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the
romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.' Rachel Weisz

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops. Bob Hoskins

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in
passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something. Sebastian Coe

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on. Daisy
Ridley

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you
realize no one reads you but other poets. George Murray

Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie
'2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us. Jean-Michel Jarre

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves,
hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. Christopher Marlowe

I'm a romantic. Tom Cruise

I'm a big romantic, so I love guys who are romantic too. Ashley Tisdale

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed
about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in
reality. Hugo Weaving
My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are
behind me. John Lithgow

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The
West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
Jason Isaacs

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try. Seth Rogen

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been. Lisa Ling

To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen. Yami Gautam

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming. Kristen Stewart

'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi
romantic thriller. Colin Trevorrow

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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the
same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one
theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
Madchen Amick

Cooking is always very romantic! Matthew Morrison

True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me. Joe Carnahan

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy. Diane
Kruger

To me, romantic means, um, you follow your heart more than your mind. Sometimes when
you're shooting a film, you have to follow your heart. Wong Kar-wai

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love
and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love. Beatrice Wood

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which
was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it
should be. Emma Watson

I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My
favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.' Ginnifer Goodwin
I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though
I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question. Robert
Webb

All I ever wanted was to be a sexy bride, and actually, I think I've turned into a romantic bride.
Poppy Delevingne

Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the
tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle
of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing
but a prop. Naomi Wolf

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Luciano De Crescenzo

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're
gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say,
'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach
someone how to be the best version of themselves. Alain de Botton

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's
a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character
actor who can fill it in. Harvey Fierstein

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what
romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the
love we inspire. Maggie Gallagher

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're
in love with - that's romance. Sasha Grey

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
Carolina Herrera

I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters. Ali Fazal

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence
the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs. Martin Parr

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell
Lowell

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to
the possibilities of romantic storytelling. Alaya Dawn Johnson
'The Virginian' has a very important romantic story line that you don't find in a lot of Westerns...
At the heart of the story is quite a bit of pain and a sense of loss. Bill Pullman

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old
and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't,
but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic
comedy to help me professionally. Ginnifer Goodwin

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine. Mark
Shand

When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a
date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing
science fiction. Adrian Tomine

Beauty is the lover's gift. William Congreve

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a
time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been. Samuel Daniel

It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has
not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to
poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms
of, any orthodoxy. Eavan Boland

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for
family, for country. Jojo Moyes

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I
realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.
Freida Pinto

Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me
to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out
fortnightly. Melvyn Bragg

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It
was just the way the stories went. Lauren Willig

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't
really try to do it. James Gray

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation,
it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug. Helen Fisher

I would love to do a romantic comedy - a good one. Stephanie Sigman

In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones. Jean-Michel Jarre

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in
their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic
relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I
needed to do. Taiye Selasi

After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the
morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the
Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant,
quotidian sacrifice. Darin Strauss

With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy,
you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about
women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
Callie Khouri

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial
houses. It's brutally romantic. David Morrissey

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. Glenn Beck
I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
Cass McCombs

I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly. Louis
Tomlinson

I'm very romantic. Carmen Electra

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy. Andy Serkis

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. James Joyce

I enjoy romantic comedies in general. I like them when they're bad, I like when they're good.
Jessica Williams

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When I give I give myself. Walt Whitman

I'm a big old romantic. Colin Farrell

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are
important to know. Donna Tartt

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the
arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something
that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.
Renee Fleming

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than
their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences. Richard
Thompson

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts. Ryan Reynolds

I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just
because it's valuable. Iris Apfel

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is
never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. Charles Kingsley

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live
there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me
tell you, of the two, the latter is far better. Amy Poehler

I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-
skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is
historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
Billy Dee Williams

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine. Allison Williams

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. James
Earl Jones

'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of
those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy. R.
Kelly

I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a
teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it
myself, thank you'. Paul O'Grady

What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl. Peter Dinklage

There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here
in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K.
Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman. J. K. Simmons

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of
clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. Conor Oberst

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. Aaron Eckhart

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what
people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being
more important and special than anything and everything else. Emma Watson

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or
killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic
roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero. Chow Yun-Fat

I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas. Paula Hawkins

I love to have my hair down; I love to have my hair full... there's something romantic about it.
Blake Lively

My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.' Dylan Lauren

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way
hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me. Joel Madden

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.
Marlon James

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters. Elizabeth Olsen

I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a
comedy about three young men in New York City, one of whom may or may not be a romantic
like me. Andre Holland

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The
interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. George William
Curtis

We only part to meet again. John Gay

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though. David Duchovny

I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really
hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.
Juliana Hatfield

It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the
romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way. Sarah Gadon

My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock
tumbler. We were so different and so similar. Paula Pell

Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and
romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher
and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground. Rachel Zoe

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel
closer to home. Liu Wen

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson

Jung Yong-hwa and I know so much about each other, I think it would be difficult for us to start
a romantic relationship. Park Shin-hye

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but
fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen
as an achievement in itself. David Millar

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world. Sam
Elliott

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but
it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine -
a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any
motorcycle journey was special. Antoine Predock

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond
the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as
a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters. Khaled Hosseini

I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one
kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,'
'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my
parameters. Madhur Bhandarkar

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color
catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. Barbara Ehrenreich

In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very
romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs. Luis Fonsi
The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it
gets. Isla Fisher

The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock
song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce
vita!' Chiara Ferragni

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year. Dylan
McDermott

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and
romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play. Pierce Brosnan

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's
so romantic and so theatrical. Dorothy Hamill

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories. Richard LaGravenese

I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and
very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always
something that undercuts things. David Nicholls

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The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic
comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works. Shane Carruth

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
Lillian Gordy Carter

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of
a soft version of propaganda. Martin Parr

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type. Kelsey Grammer

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

In real life, I am not a romantic person. I am a fun person and a complete tomboy. Kratika
Sengar

The underdog winning is the romantic position. Malcolm Gladwell

Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only
when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise. Jacqueline Fernandez

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies. Kevin Bacon

I love romantic comedies. Max Minghella

'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.' Ranbir
Kapoor

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous
country to go to in reality. Hugo Weaving

Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like
they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the
beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control. Jen Kirkman

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson

I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so
romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks. Olga Kurylenko

I love being one half of a romantic couple. Julianna Margulies

When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd
make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you
what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes. Tinie Tempah

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of
all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. Joan Didion

That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours,
everything is taken care of. Hannah Simone

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic. Felicity Jones

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim

My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know
that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you. Wild Bill Hickok

I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow
up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed
the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe. Claire Messud
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do
anything well, you have to put yourself into it. John Cusack

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something
extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Billy Graham

I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films! Sonam Kapoor

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic
conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's
almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. Henry
Rollins

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead. Patricia Clarkson

I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl. Maisie
Williams

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men
whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.
Mariella Frostrup

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory! Olga Kurylenko

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine,
filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. Nathaniel
Hawthorne

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated
with romantic love. Helen Fisher

I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie
- my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times. Alison Brie

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur Symons

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic
comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible. Christian Bale

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic
terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took
place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements
behind them. Al Sharpton

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. Alice Cooper
I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling
creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be
home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way. Mandy Moore

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and
sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision. Laura Marling

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their
footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T.
Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km. Arthur Smith

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and
misery. Jon Krakauer

Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her
mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could
there be for a romantic novelist? Lauren Willig

Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not
the most interesting thing in my life anymore. Kelly Sue DeConnick

I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of
what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we
are. Jack Lowden

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy. Izabella Scorupco

So the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to
have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else. Chevy Chase

I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a
couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise
someone, they're happy to see you. John Cusack

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of
wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in. Jamie
Oliver

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. Johnny Depp

I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave
enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The
good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by
mystery and crumbles upon inspection. Irvin D. Yalom

I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent. Gene Luen Yang

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey
Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. Gloria Steinem

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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic
comedy, or horror. I love horror films. Rain

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-
romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and
pinned down, it's worthless. Sebastian Faulks

I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get
offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like
much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them. Greg Mottola

Movies are romantic fantasies. Ira Sachs

I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it
works, it works. Joe Perry

I could never understand, when I watch romantic comedies, the notion that for some reason,
unattractive or heavy people don't fall in love. If they do, it's in some odd, kooky, roundabout
way - and it's not. It's exactly the same. James Corden

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books
I read and the movies I watched. Adrian Tomine

I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside - that's because it
feels kind of romantic and sexier to me. I really think they are the people that we learn lessons
from. Willem Dafoe

I need to be more romantic. I do. I know that's something women really appreciate. Brody Jenner

I love you more than my own skin. Frida Kahlo

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats

Many people who don't like Rachmaninov's style consider the 'Rhapsody' his masterpiece. It's
written fantastically well for orchestra and piano. He combines a lot of effervescence with a
deep, Romantic spirit. Stephen Hough
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn
it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain. Andrew Bird

I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way
or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive. Tobias Jesso, Jr.

I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to
do more, but I kept doing drama. Elizabeth Reaser

I'm a hopeless romantic. Lance Bass

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's
increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that
come before. Julia Roberts

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not. Kate Hudson

I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, so it's
always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible.
Sterling Knight

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance. Ang Lee

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often. Hill Harper

I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't
change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some
idealised past. Sarah Gavron

Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of
capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the consumer with the best
products at the lowest prices. Paul Craig Roberts

When I am in love, I am ridiculously and hopelessly romantic. Jacqueline Fernandez

I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers'
in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could
something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown? Vanessa Diffenbaugh

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. Ben
Affleck

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism
and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-
bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become
respectable. Alejandro Jodorowsky

I think the best romantic comedies are hard funny - no soft jokes, but ones that make you, like,
guffaw. I also think that they have to make you feel good, ideally, and make you feel warm
inside at the end. Nicholas Stoller

When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became
interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are
the important things in life; what should one value over other materials. Cary Fukunaga

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and
we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time. Freddy Fender

My heart is like a singing bird. Christina Rossetti

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early
1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.
Hugh Hefner

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a
citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some
compromises. Irwin Shaw

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut
instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The
Good Wife.' Archie Panjabi

I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot.
'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the
stories I loved growing up. Daniel Radcliffe

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from
anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a
sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something
romantic to me about that. Conor Oberst

I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility,
wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something. Walter Kirn

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do
is draw a portrait of the person you love. Nick Carter

I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with
your rod, one is as good as another. Twinkle Khanna

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then
that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. James Van Der
Beek

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then
that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep
my private life to myself. James Van Der Beek

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of
our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. Elvis
Costello

E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was
knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person. Michael Sims

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not
movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow. Ryan Reynolds

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance,
which is rarely even attempted anymore. Colin Trevorrow

I am a hopeless romantic, and so is my wife. Nick Cannon

My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance. Ansel Elgort

I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be
with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.
Cherie Lunghi

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know,
just two attractive people and a good soundtrack. Timothy Olyphant

I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs. Johnny
Mathis

I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but
I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic
comedy. Danielle Panabaker

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene
Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing
but a succession of blondes. Hugh Hefner

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies
kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say
them. Bill Pullman
When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her,
because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic
comedy. Albert Finney

I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So
they all get married really young, at sixteen. Kate Moss

I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentine's Day, like making her dinner and
keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better. Spencer Boldman

Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want
anybody's wife to feel threatened by me. Julianne Moore

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get
it right. Halle Berry

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser
and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility. Stevie Nicks

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is:
young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't
really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't
moderately hard-working. Courtney Barnett

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I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be fun. We
had a lot of action in 'Eclipse' and I'd definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to
do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they're very expensive
and there's not a huge demographic. Ashley Greene

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people
assume that I'm not funny? Jessica Biel

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space,
the drama. Ang Lee

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get
confused about the real me. Dhanush

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and
have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from
psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided
typecasting. Jeff Bridges
When I think of Othello, I think of a poet-warrior. Let me say that again - a romantic warrior.
And I think I have those qualities in common with him. Laurence Fishburne

Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are
genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are
afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre. Mara Brock
Akil

I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music
of that era is full of empty theatrical gestures, full of exhibitionism, and it has a worldly,
hedonistic quality that simply turns me off. Glenn Gould

Any woman can make pole dancing a regular part of their exercise routine - and a fun part of
their romantic life! Kendra Wilkinson

Being in the studio is a really romantic time. Alison Krauss

I'm a real romantic. Vanity

A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane
than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in
all these different loving relationships. Delilah

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love
Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of
romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all. Jane
Campion

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. Leslie Caron

Akshay's idea of a romantic date is a six-kilometre jog, followed by 500 crunches... together!
Eeeeks! Twinkle Khanna

Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films,
and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie. Ellen Page

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York. Vera Farmiga

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. Stendhal

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance
on a new level would suit me. Irrfan Khan

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me
for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school!
I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself. Olivia Wilde
Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're
talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too. Mara Wilson

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up
there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic
place within the cosmos. Tom Hanks

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a
hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to
reinvent marriage for myself. Halle Berry

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic
loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a
new generation with new music. Bobby Vinton

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes
- or just by staring into space. Marilyn Monroe

I am a hopeless romantic. Jessica Brown Findlay

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that
it was a romantic calling. Charles Kuralt

I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic. Evangeline Lilly

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get
into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of
your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. Nick Cave

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's
myth, but I don't want to believe it is. Sydney Pollack

Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy. They're actually super technical, like, 'Move your
head; you're blocking her light,' or, 'Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her.' Will Poulter

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. Gloria Swanson

When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it
wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and
work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and
change the film. So it was like this age of innocence. Kylie Minogue

For me, it's sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage,
because I think so much about marriage starts to become about finances. It has nothing to do
with God or feelings or the romantic side of marriage. It's about who owns what, who gets what?
So what's the point? Andie MacDowell

My vibrato was my weakness. With romantic pieces, I could be a lot more schmaltzy. My wider
vibrato fit that. Gretchen Carlson

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and
gunpowder. Andre Maurois

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a
love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters. Gina Prince-
Bythewood

The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at
times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.
Luchino Visconti

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life
is so much better when she's happy. Nicholas Sparks

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. Drew Barrymore

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led
me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome. Harmony Korine

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing
is not to reveal you're gay. Ian Mckellen

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to
get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. Irving Babbitt

Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much
music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo
chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there. Mike D

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend,
whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite. Gordon Ramsay

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.
Steve Carell

The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually
gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small
business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire,
fire, reconcile, and budget. Alain de Botton
I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the
sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I
think that would be a huge mistake. Leonardo DiCaprio

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I am very uncomfortable being romantic. I can be funny; I can be all over the place. I can be
anything but romantic. Amruta Khanvilkar

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches
and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with
the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that. Dries van Noten

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of
red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I
don't even go there. Dave Gahan

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic
comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck. Laura Dern

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write
and write well. Rashida Jones

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel
the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which
the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond de
Goncourt

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines. Carly Rae Jepsen

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was
a success. Bela Lugosi

I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a
young age. Mandy Moore

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
Sean Penn

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional

comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before
you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or
a song and dance man. Pat Paulsen

People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown
really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
Gary Oldman

Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor

It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic
bond that inspires this. Kate Christensen

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a
romantic comedy. Carter Burwell

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it. Aaron Paul

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies
is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of
vicariously experienceing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic. Christina Ricci

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important
to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the
other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss. Nathaniel Branden

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and
share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?
Gavin Creel

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a
long time now. Pierce Brosnan

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit
different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about
that and living it a lot. Stephenie Meyer

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage.
When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my
personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation. Harry Connick, Jr.

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of
purpose. James Gray

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or
anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it. Florence
Henderson

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. John Greenleaf Whittier

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it. Tim
Roth

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved
people get: invested and angry, really disappointed. Sienna Miller

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type. Honestly, I did not
get into a lot of bar brawls - but I was always willing to. About the only thing missing from my
story is that I haven't had a full knock-down fight in the middle of the Polo Lounge. Kelsey
Grammer

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Jane Austen

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a
movie. Ian Mckellen

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You
know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and
that's the only thing that I'm getting. Christian Bale

I never meant to be in romantic comedies; it's just what ended up happening. But they are tricky,
in a post-1960s sexual revolution way. It was easier when you couldn't have sex scenes:
everything crackled very nicely. They're not easy. Hugh Grant

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or
why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men. Cameron Diaz

I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
Felicity Jones

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own
the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the
past. It is still alive. Jack White

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
Rainbow Rowell

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and
adventure. Charlie Chaplin

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
Call me a romantic, but I think entrepreneurs should try to change the world. This comes from
working at Apple... old habits die hard. Guy Kawasaki

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there
because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic. Sinead O'Connor
I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will
burst. Telly Savalas

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her
something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk. R. Kelly

I can be a romantic. The way to every woman's heart is through her stomach. Food is at the core
of everything. Paul Hollywood

Words of love, are works of love. William R. Alger

I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with. Henry Ian Cusick

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or
an art film. Gia Coppola

Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those
ballads and cheesy romantic things. Juan Diego Florez

I am a very romantic person, and I love 'love' - however cheesy that sounds! Armaan Malik

I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have
our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into
our romantic visions of ourselves. Rachel Joyce

Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a
romantic, is sad for me to say. Jeremy Irons

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and
well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society. Rufus Wainwright

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't
want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. Bill Pullman

When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to
create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be
manufactured - it's either there or it isn't. Jeff Garlin

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make. D. B. Sweeney

A romantic date for me is sitting in pajamas and being with a guy with whom I can be myself.
Alia Bhatt
Best Romantic Quotes
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-
old vocation of all humanity. Gioconda Belli

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama. Liya Kebede

I think there are many ways to be brave and that being brave and vulnerable in terms of a
romantic situation is one of the hardest things to do in real life. Kelly Marie Tran

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic
comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny. Hugh Grant

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships
with a man. Alanis Morissette

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with
romantic comedy. James L. Brooks

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like
conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the
trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a
comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor. Matt Dillon

I absolutely love Ireland. It's one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and I have strong ties
here. Both my grandmothers are from Ireland, and I have spent every summer in Bantry since my
father, who is an artist, had the romantic idea 20 years ago to buy an old farmhouse on the west
coast and renovate it. Emily Ratajkowski

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I
suppose that is a romantic idea. Tony Benn

I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.
Stephanie Sigman

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the
suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids
and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I
like to play with that in my work. Harlan Coben

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not
something for me. Diane Kruger

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the
world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to. Alden
Ehrenreich
I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14. Matt Bomer

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a
Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships. Sophie
Hannah

I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my
comfort. Rani Mukerji

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these
romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left
out. And the romantic focus is on the children. Ayelet Waldman

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty
observations, has a romance of its own. Virginia Woolf

I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong
statement. Luis Fonsi

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when
two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you,
Then both of us were born anew. William Cartwright

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so
romantic for the starving artist. David Lynch

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion
every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before
prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. Elizabeth
Wurtzel

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic
music. Robert Gottlieb

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I
experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or
romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of
films that I like watching. Deepika Padukone

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. William Makepeace Thackeray

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or
Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course. Jessica Simpson
I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old
romantic. Will Estes

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close
and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. Havelock
Ellis

I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life... But I'm not a
romantic. I'm just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women
to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not.
Let me have my choice. Nayvadius Cash

Best Romantic Quotes

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South. Josh Lucas

The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about
the environment. Robyn Davidson

I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't
care which I got signed for. Prince Royce

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds. Adam McKay

My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound
romantic, but otherwise it won't get done. Sherri Shepherd

I've never been a blind romantic. Sandra Bullock

I am very romantic. In fact, I just renewed my vows... although it was with another woman.
Kevin Nealon

I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic
comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they
maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play. Carrie-Anne Moss

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a
playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is
simply the parents projecting their own wishes. Michael Haneke

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm
a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships. Lara Pulver
I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week
wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind. Wentworth
Miller

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Carolyn Gold
Heilbrun

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping
you. Thomas Wolfe

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I
love hard. Melanie Fiona

I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at. Rene Russo

I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more
satisfying than a great romantic comedy. Nicholas Stoller

I'm sick of playing romantic leads. John Corbett

Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists,
who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a
lifetime commitment. Jane Ridley

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food. Elisha Cuthbert

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I
would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of
being this old dude maybe making guitars or something. James Mercer

Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be
associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive
to men. Helen Fisher

It's a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If
you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very
romantic. Douglas Booth

I'm looking forward to sproglets but, as I'm the main breadwinner, I feel I ought to capitalise on
my career for a bit longer. Mother keeps telling me I should go and freeze some eggs. Not
terribly romantic, is it? Honeysuckle Weeks

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The
Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than
the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share
things with her. Taylor Lautner

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition. Rory Stewart

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times. Jay McInerney

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic
comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get
the guy. Minnie Driver

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's
something very romantic about a circus. Mary Ellen Mark

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't
like a big romantic adventure. Chris Pine

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Stephen King

In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the
mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea. Vir Das

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in
full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic. Georgina Chapman

If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can
think of. Ryan Gosling

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic. Orlando Bloom

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best
sense one stays young. F. Scott Fitzgerald

My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening
around me. It wasn't some romantic, patriotic vision of Scotland going back to what it had been
300 years previously. Nicola Sturgeon