There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.Ben Affleck
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.Margaret Anderson
I'm really a romantic at heart.Christopher Atkins
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
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
My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.Jennifer Beals
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
We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.Jill Bennett
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.Orlando Bloom
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.John Boorman
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.Anne Boyd
In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.Anne Boyd
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 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
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
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.Carter Burwell
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
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
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.Lillian Gordy Carter
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
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
When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.Morris Chestnut
You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.Patricia Clarkson
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.James D'arcy
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
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.Charles Dance
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
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
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.Max Eastman
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.Aaron Eckhart
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 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
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.Henry Ellis
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.Buchi Emecheta
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
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
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 would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.Linda Fiorentino
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was the most romantic plane ever made.Ken Follett
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.Robert Frank
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
I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.Morgan Freeman
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
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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
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
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.Bill Griffith
I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.Conrad Hall
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.Salma Hayek
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.Douglas Horton
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.Kate Hudson
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 a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.Thomas Jane
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
I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.Norman Jewison
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.Norman Jewison
The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.Don Johnson
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 don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.James Earl Jones
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.Sally Kellerman
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 enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.Joe Lando
You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.Sheryl Lee
I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.Jeremy London
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.Josh Lucas
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.Bela Lugosi
But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.Brian Lumley
The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.Paul Lynde
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.Marya Mannes
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.Neville Marriner
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.Andre Maurois
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.Ewan McGregor
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
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
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
I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.Matthew Modine
I'm a very romantic person.Esai Morales
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
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
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.John Dos Passos
Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.Robin Wright Penn
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.Sean Penn
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
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
Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.Tim Roth
Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.Meg Ryan
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
There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.Paul Simon
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.Margaret Chase Smith
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.Robert Smith
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.Sylvester Stallone
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
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.Janet Street-Porter
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
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.Arthur Symons
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.Donna Tartt
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.Gene Tierney
I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.Gabrielle Union
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
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 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
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.Thomas Wolfe
Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?Tom Wolfe
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.Tom Wolfe
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
I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.Pia Zadora
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