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Quotes with tag Romantic:

Author	Quote	Rank
Edgar Allan Poe	All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.	89
Jane Austen	There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.	90
John Keats	I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.	100
Sylvia Plath	Kiss me and you will see how important I am.	101
Christopher Marlowe	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.	101
Edward VIII	A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.	101
John Greenleaf Whittier	Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.	101
Oscar Hammerstein II	Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.	101
Paul Hollywood	I can be a romantic. The way to every woman's heart is through her stomach. Food is at the core of everything.	101
R. Kelly	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.	101
Rachel McAdams	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.	101
Thomas Wolfe	Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.	101
Victoria Jackson	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.	101
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran	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.	101
William Makepeace Thackeray	When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.	101
Yeardley Smith	Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.	101
Adam McKay	There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.	101
Catherine Hardwicke	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.	101
Christina Ricci	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 experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.	101
Edmond de Goncourt	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.	101
Elisha Cuthbert	There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.	101
Gary Paulsen	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.	101
George Herman	You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!	101
Katharine Lee Bates	Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.	101
Minna Antrim	A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.	101
Nicholas Stoller	I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains.	101
Nick Zano	I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.	101
Nimrat Kaur	I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.	101
Tim Roth	Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.	101
Wild Bill Hickok	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.	101
Will Estes	I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.	101
Bobby Vinton	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.	101
Carter Burwell	I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.	101
David Morrissey	Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.	101
Frank Waters	The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.	101
Laurence Housman	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.	101
Leslie Caron	The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.	101
Louis Tomlinson	I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.	101
Luchino Visconti	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.	101
Meghan Markle	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.	101
Pearl Cleage	I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.	101
Peter Wright	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.	101
Stephen Graham Jones	Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.	101
Tobias Jesso, Jr.	I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.	101
William Cartwright	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.	101
Aaron Eckhart	Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.	101
Benjamin Bratt	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.	101
Charles Kingsley	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.	101
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau	In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.	101
Kirsten Prout	I like sundresses with cowboy boots, little shorts with big wedge heels and a big piece of turquoise. I also love classic, Old Hollywood romantic styles. I'm 'country girl meets city girl' circa 1930.	101
Margaret Anderson	In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.	101
Melanie Fiona	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.	101
P. C. Cast	As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.	101
Ruth Glick	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.	101
Brian Herbert	My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.	101
Buchi Emecheta	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.	101
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun	Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.	101
Kim Barnouin	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.	101
Lara Pulver	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.	101
Rachel Hurd-Wood	I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'	101
Daniel Dae Kim	There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.	101
Jojo Moyes	Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.	101
Luciano De Crescenzo	We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.	101
Samuel Daniel	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.	101
Sada Thompson	When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.	101
Sterling Knight	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.	101
Susan Stewart	The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.	101
Ana Layevska	Foreign audiences are used to seeing Mexico in other sorts of movies. 'Casi divas' is a step toward a more commercially successful cinema, without the violence, blood and exaggerations. The movie reflects a more human Mexico, while remaining a chick flick, although it is not a romantic comedy.	101
Jennifer Coolidge	A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.	101
John Gay	We only part to meet again.	101
Mary Archer	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.	101
Mary Roberts Rinehart	The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.	101
Anne Boyd	In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.	101
Joe Johnston	I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, deadly to his enemies. The opportunity to tell the true story of Gotti with John Travolta is a director's dream.	101
Arthur Symons	A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.	101
John Sandford	There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.	101
Jane Ridley	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.	101
Joe Swanberg	It's very difficult to have any kind of romantic feelings for a movie where you know exactly what's going to happen in the first five minutes.	101
Jillian Murray	I would love to do some crazy action or even a real romantic comedy. I think that would be really exciting.	101
Emily Dickinson	If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.	102
Jean-Michel Basquiat	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.	102
Ang Lee	I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.	102
Cary Fukunaga	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.	102
Elizabeth Wurtzel	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.	102
Jennifer Aniston	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.	102
Mindy Kaling	I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!	102
Steve Carell	I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.	102
Tom Hanks	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.	102
Daniel Woodrell	I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.	102
Freddy Fender	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.	102
Jeremy Taylor	Love is friendship set on fire.	102
Paula Hawkins	I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas.	102
William R. Alger	Words of love, are works of love.	102
Bob Hoskins	I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.	102
Ken Adam	I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.	102
Shane Carruth	I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.	102
Stephen Moyer	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.	102
Suzanne Brockmann	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.	102
Jane Campion	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.	102
Joel Madden	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.	102
Laura Vandervoort	I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.	102
Luke Bracey	I like to think of myself as a romantic person!	102
Ruth Glick	Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.	102
Tobias Menzies	I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there's honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn't easy. And I'm no matinee idol.	102
Tom Cullen	I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.	102
Billy Strayhorn	Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.	102
David McCallum	If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.	102
Kevin Alejandro	I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.	102
Maggie Gallagher	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.	102
Spencer Boldman	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.	102
Thora Birch	When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.	102
Tina Majorino	OK, I love 'The King and I.' I'm a huge Yul Brynner fan. I love the scene where they danced after the big banquet; that's one of my favorite scenes in a movie of all time. It's romantic and sweet and wonderful.	102
Bartlett Sher	The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'	102
Chris Lowell	I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.	102
Christopher Egan	I've done a road trip across Italy with a girlfriend, and that was very romantic. I think that road trips are probably one of the romantic things you can do. To take your girlfriend and just stay wherever; don't have a destination and just drive and see where the road takes you is pretty cool.	102
John Dos Passos	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.	102
Jeremy London	I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.	102
Rupert Brooke	Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.	102
Jayne Ann Krentz	I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.	102
Skye McCole Bartusiak	My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and my mom was a dancer, and that's how they met; they met in the theatre.	102
Anne Boyd	Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.	102
Julie Delpy	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.	102
Maggie Shayne	Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.	102
Michael Wincott	I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.	102
Jessica Hecht	I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.	102
Jessica Marais	I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.	102
Oscar Wilde	If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.	103
Christina Rossetti	My heart is like a singing bird.	103
Frank Black	Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.	103
Helen Fisher	Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.	103
John Greenleaf Whittier	All the windows of my heart I open to the day.	103
Miranda Hart	I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.	103
Rachel McAdams	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.	103
Virginia Henley	I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be.	103
George William Curtis	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.	103
Gioconda Belli	There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.	103
James Weldon 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.	103
Lance Bass	I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.	103
Luanne Rice	'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.	103
Martin Parr	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.	103
Monica Lewinsky	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.	103
Nancy Meyers	There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.	103
Rainbow Rowell	When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.	103
Sean Penn	That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.	103
Sinclair Lewis	What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.	103
Francois Lelord	Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'	103
Leelee Sobieski	I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.	103
Marya Mannes	The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.	103
Nicholas Mosley	After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.	103
Pearl Cleage	I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.	103
Robert M. Parker, Jr.	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.	103
Shane Carruth	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.	103
Barbara Broccoli	I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.	103
Emily Ratajkowski	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.	103
Graeme Simsion	A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.	103
Jai Courtney	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.	103
Jennifer Love Hewitt	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.	103
Luke Bracey	With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.	103
Petra Haden	I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.'	103
Ben Savage	I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.	103
Lillian Gordy Carter	Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.	103
Michael Patrick King	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.	103
Sarah Gadon	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.	103
Susannah McCorkle	Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.	103
Telly Savalas	I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.	103
Candace Camp	There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.	103
Corey Stoll	People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.	103
James L. Brooks	I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.	103
Jeffrey Tate	I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.	103
Caterina Scorsone	My favorite - my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it's like, you know, every scene, you know, pushes every button, is 'True Romance' directed by Tony Scott with Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater, and it's a fantastic, fantastic film, very violent, very romantic.	103
Jerry Lee Lewis	Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.	103
Mathieu Amalric	There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.	103
Sara Canning	I definitely fell in love with 'Dracula' when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.	103
Alexander Koch	I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.	103
Alice Smith	I loved it. I just thought I wanted to stay in college forever. I came to New York all by myself; I didn't have any friends there. But it was fine. I felt comfortable. I started thinking, 'Maybe graduate school?' I was really cool with people who were smart, who knew stuff. It's very romantic and stimulating.	103
Joan Chen	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.	103
Mary Frann	I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.	103
Melissa Pritchard	Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.	103
Jiah Khan	I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.	103
Janet Street-Porter	Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.	103
Billy Graham	The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.	104
Henry Ward Beecher	Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.	104
Morgan Freeman	I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.	104
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.	104
Richard Bach	True love stories never have endings.	104
Dorothy L. Sayers	I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.	104
Harry Connick, Jr.	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.	104
Katharine McPhee	Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.	104
Mindy Kaling	When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.	104
Natalie Portman	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.	104
Nick 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.	104
Walter Hagen	It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.	104
Yash Chopra	I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.	104
Henry Anatole Grunwald	In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.	104
Keith Jarrett	I am a romantic, I admit it.	104
Lance Bass	I'm a hopeless romantic.	104
Nancy Meyers	Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.	104
Saoirse Ronan	'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.	104
Aasif Mandvi	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.	104
Scott Michael Foster	When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap.	104
Andre Holland	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.	104
Elinor Lipman	An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.	104
Ellen Hollman	You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.	104
Larenz Tate	How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.	104
Mary Wortley Montagu	In short I will part with anything for you but you.	104
Matthew Lillard	Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.	104
Betty Who	I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.	104
Aberjhani	Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.	104
Antoine Predock	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.	104
Dave Pirner	Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.	104
Jessica Brown Findlay	I am a hopeless romantic.	104
Maksim Chmerkovskiy	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.	104
Alden Ehrenreich	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.	104
David Lyons	The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.	104
Diego Boneta	I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.	104
John Logan	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.	104
William Blake	I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.	105
Conor Oberst	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.	105
Italo Calvino	What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.	105
James Russell Lowell	All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.	105
Monica Bellucci	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.	105
Walter Dean Myers	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.	105
William Dunbar	Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.	105
Arthur Smith	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.	105
Francine Pascal	I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.	105
Gary Lineker	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.	105
James McAvoy	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.	105
Michael Haneke	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.	105
Nicholas Stoller	I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.	105
Portia de Rossi	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.	105
Sam Yagan	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.	105
Cherie Lunghi	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.	105
Doug Liman	To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.	105
Rani Mukerji	I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.	105
Alex Pettyfer	'I Am Number Four' is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.	105
Anita Shreve	WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.	105
Bill Pullman	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.	105
Joe Carnahan	If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.	105
Lil' Romeo	I love romantic comedies.	105
Rachael Taylor	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.	105
Sebastian Faulks	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.	105
Bryan Singer	I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.	105
Corey Hart	My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.	105
Mollie King	Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.	105
Robert Herrick	What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.	105
Stana Katic	Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.	105
Telly Savalas	I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.	105
Jennifer Armentrout	I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally.	105
Michelle Trachtenberg	I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.	105
John Lloyd Young	My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.	105
Mara Brock Akil	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.	105
Meaghan Rath	When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.	105
Julie Delpy	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.	105
Jill Bennett	We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.	105
Ashton Kutcher	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.'	106
Conrad Hall	I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.	106
Hanna Rosin	NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.	106
Hill Harper	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.	106
Kristen Stewart	I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.	106
Matthew McConaughey	The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.	106
Nick Cave	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.	106
R. Kelly	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.	106
Ryan Gosling	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.	106
Sammy Davis, Jr.	There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.	106
Tinie Tempah	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.	106
William Congreve	Beauty is the lover's gift.	106
Brittany Murphy	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.	106
Jane Wiedlin	I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever.	106
Mariella Frostrup	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.	106
Max Muller	I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.	106
Preity Zinta	If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.	106
Deborra-Lee Furness	There's nothing more romantic after not seeing your husband for four months than to have our first night back together, on a Broadway stage, with 12 million people watching.	106
Sophie Kinsella	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.	106
Anita Brookner	The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.	106
Edward Herrmann	How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.	106
Greg Berlanti	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.	106
Joe Perry	I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.	106
Mark Shand	I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.	106
Bobby Cannavale	I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.	106
Matt Berninger	I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.	106
Melissa De Sousa	'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.	106
Robert Herrick	Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.	106
Alice Eve	I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.	106
Monique Roffey	The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.	106
Roxanne McKee	I don't believe there is one most romantic act that a guy can do; I think it is all about the couple in question, which totally differs. It's about you thinking about the person you are with and doing something tailored and thoughtful for them.	106
Joe Lando	I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.	106
John Edgar Wideman	My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.	106
Maya Angelou	Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.	107
Frida Kahlo	I love you more than my own skin.	107
Amy Poehler	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.	107
Ben Affleck	There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.	107
Billy Idol	I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.	107
Carolina Herrera	You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.	107
Chevy Chase	Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.	107
Ginnifer Goodwin	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.'	107
Glenn Beck	Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.	107
Beatrice Wood	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.	107
Cameron Diaz	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.	107
Charles Saatchi	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.	107
Laura Marling	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.	107
Robert Frank	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.	107
Giuseppe Zanotti	Hip hop is the strongest form of protest there is, and it doesn't always have to be a violent protest. It can be romantic, also. When you listen to Kanye West's 'Street Lights' for example, there's romance, there's pain - you feel the essence. I get the same thing from Drake and 2 Chainz.	107
Janeane Garofalo	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.	107
Katharine Weymouth	People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.	107
Kimberly Schlapman	My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.	107
Meghan Markle	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.	107
Alice Englert	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!	107
Andrew Sullivan	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.	107
Edward Rutherfurd	For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.	107
Rachel Joyce	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.	107
Jade Jagger	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.	107
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.	107
Jim Sturgess	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.	107
Joseph Barbera	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.	107
Jason Segel	One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.	107
Justin Chon	I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.	107
Joshua Ferris	The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.	107
Jez Butterworth	I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.	107
Lord Byron	There is no instinct like that of the heart.	108
D. H. Lawrence	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.	108
Bernard Williams	If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.	108
Douglas Horton	The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.	108
Frank Black	It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.	108
Helena Bonham Carter	I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.	108
Lena Dunham	I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.	108
Olivia Hussey	I am such a diehard romantic. I guess a part of me thinks I am Juliet.	108
Vanessa Paradis	The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.	108
Brit Marling	I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.	108
Brooke Burke	I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.	108
Ella Maillart	When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.	108
Emeli Sande	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?	108
La India	Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.	108
Taylor Lautner	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.	108
Alison Brie	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.	108
Chow Yun-Fat	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.	108
Colin Wilson	When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.	108
Rebecca Romijn	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.	108
Simon Beaufoy	India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.	108
Brian Lumley	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.	108
Chelsea Peretti	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.	108
Laura Vandervoort	I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.	108
Rachel Hunter	I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.	108
Dilma Rousseff	I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.	108
Marco Beltrami	I think the only thing that I really haven't done much in, and I haven't felt too attracted to, is romantic comedies.	108
Matthew Modine	I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.	108
Aunjanue Ellis	I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.	108
Hugh Hefner	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.	109
Lenny Abrahamson	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.	109
Paul Simon	There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.	109
Walter Isaacson	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.	109
Dar Williams	Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.	109
Dhanush	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.	109
Ellen Page	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.	109
Kate Millett	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.	109
Rainbow Rowell	With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.	109
Andrew Bird	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.	109
Anne-Marie Duff	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.	109
Jon Krakauer	There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.	109
Mara Wilson	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.	109
Tyler Farr	I'm a romantic at heart.	109
M. Ward	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.	109
Sharon Lawrence	I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world that revolves around younger kid actors.	109
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.	109
Chevy Chase	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.	110
Helen Fisher	Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.	110
Hesiod	Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.	110
Naomi Watts	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.	110
Paul Lynde	The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.	110
Paul O'Grady	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'.	110
Trey Songz	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.	110
Adrian Tomine	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.	110
Ayaan Hirsi Ali	With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.	110
Elizabeth Meriwether	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.	110
Esha Gupta	I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.	110
Honeysuckle Weeks	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?	110
Hugo Weaving	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.	110
Rainbow Rowell	It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.	110
Richard Thompson	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.	110
Rutina Wesley	I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.	110
Andre Dubus III	I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.	110
Archie Panjabi	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.'	110
Ashley Greene	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.	110
E. F. Benson	What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.	110
James Gray	The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.	110
Ken Marino	I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.	110
Lee Siegel	Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.	110
Alfred Molina	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.	110
Janine di Giovanni	There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.	110
Joaquin Phoenix	I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.	110
Sebastian Faulks	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.	110
John Corbett	I'm sick of playing romantic leads.	110
Aberjhani	Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.	110
Marilyn Monroe	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.	111
Alejandro Jodorowsky	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.	111
Ann Voskamp	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.	111
Christian Bale	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.	111
Christopher Marlowe	O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.	111
Gary Oldman	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.	111
Halle Berry	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.	111
Irvin D. Yalom	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.	111
Jamie Oliver	I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.	111
Joe DiMaggio	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.	111
Nayvadius Cash	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.	111
Pearl S. Buck	Love alone could waken love.	111
Stendhal	If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.	111
Thomas Mallon	The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.	111
Alan Furst	I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.	111
Marc Jacobs	Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.	111
Nicholas Haslam	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.	111
Nigel Kennedy	I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.	111
David Nicholls	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.	111
Juliana Hatfield	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.	111
Jurgen Klopp	I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.	111
Lauren London	Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.	111
Max Eastman	Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.	111
Tobias Jesso, Jr.	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.	111
Andre Holland	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.	111
Jennifer Love Hewitt	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.	111
Liu Wen	Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.	111
Alexandra Cassavetes	There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.	111
Jean Reno	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.	111
Jennifer Beals	My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.	111
John Keats	Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.	112
Barbara Ehrenreich	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.	112
Carly Rae Jepsen	My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.	112
Feist	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.	112
Gerard Way	There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.	112
Halle Berry	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.	112
Ian Mckellen	The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.	112
Jack White	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.	112
Malcolm Gladwell	The underdog winning is the romantic position.	112
Pierce Brosnan	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.	112
Stevie Nicks	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.	112
Charles Dance	A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.	112
Eric Bana	I'm a bit of a romantic.	112
Rory Stewart	In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.	112
Sasha Grey	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.	112
Stephen Lang	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.	112
Cecelia Ahern	I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.	112
Elaine Sciolino	Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'	112
Emma McLaughlin	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.	112
Jen Kirkman	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.	112
Danielle Panabaker	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.	112
Jason Isbell	People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.	112
John Stamos	I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.	112
Joan Armatrading	Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.	112
Jeanne Phillips	Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.	112
Charlie Chaplin	A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.	113
Alice Cooper	I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.	113
Heather Graham	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.	113
R. Kelly	'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.	113
Renzo Piano	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.	113
Vir Das	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.	113
Alex Turner	I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.	113
Eva Longoria	I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.	113
James Wan	I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.	113
Bai Ling	I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.	113
Cass McCombs	I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.	113
D. B. Sweeney	Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.	113
David Coverdale	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.	113
Luka Sulic	I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.	113
Paul Horn	I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.	113
Aaron Eckhart	I'd like to do a romantic comedy.	113
David Millar	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.	113
Jeremy Renner	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.	113
Sanjay Dutt	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.	113
Sally Kellerman	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.	113
James D'arcy	I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.	113
Julianna Margulies	I love being one half of a romantic couple.	113
Jack Falahee	I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.	113
Hilary Duff	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.	114
Kate Christensen	It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.	114
Khaled Hosseini	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.	114
Pedro Almodovar	I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.	114
Thomas Moore	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.	114
Mariella Frostrup	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.	114
Taiye Selasi	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.	114
Lee Siegel	In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.	114
Libba Bray	I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.	114
Pia Zadora	Basically, I'm a romantic.	114
Sinead O'Connor	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.	114
Tobias Jesso, Jr.	I think the first time I tried to write a romantic song, it was just horrendously embarrassing. I remember thinking, 'Okay, I'm not going to do that anymore.' I think that sort of embarrassed me for the next 10 years.	114
Jane Campion	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. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.	114
Jennifer Love Hewitt	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.	114
Marlon James	We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.	114
Matthew Macfadyen	I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.	114
Morris Chestnut	When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.	114
Serinda Swan	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.	114
Sunny Deol	Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.	114
Josephine de La Baume	I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.	114
Mamie Gummer	A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.	114
John Keats	I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.	115
Fiona Apple	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.	115
Ian Frazier	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.	115
Igor Stravinsky	Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.	115
Mike Birbiglia	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.	115
Tom Robbins	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.	115
Ayelet Waldman	Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.	115
Danica McKellar	I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.	115
Maeve Binchy	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.	115
Susanne Bier	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.	115
Jason Isaacs	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.	115
Pia Zadora	I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.	115
Jeff Garlin	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.	115
Jerry Leiber	I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.	115
Aaron Sorkin	I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.	116
Christian Bale	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.	116
Havelock Ellis	The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.	116
Irrfan Khan	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.	116
Kate Hudson	I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.	116
Nathaniel Branden	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.	116
Olivia Wilde	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.	116
Sarah Jessica Parker	When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.	116
Walter Kirn	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.	116
William Makepeace Thackeray	When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.	116
Andre Maurois	We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.	116
Mariella Frostrup	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.	116
Rachel Kushner	Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.	116
Randeep Hooda	Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.	116
Bayard Taylor	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.	116
Donna Tartt	But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.	116
Josh Hutcherson	I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.	116
Linda Fiorentino	I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.	116
Lisa Gardner	Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.	116
Sophie B. Hawkins	It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.	116
Jeanne Marie Laskas	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.	116
Stephenie Meyer	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.	116
Michael Zaslow	When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.	116
Louis C. K.	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.	117
Gillian Jacobs	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?'	117
Nick Cave	I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.	117
Vanessa Diffenbaugh	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?	117
Vonda Shepard	I seem to be drawn to the really romantic songs.	117
Walter Dean Myers	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.	117
Gary Coleman	I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.	117
Gina Prince-Bythewood	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.	117
Hugo Weaving	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.	117
Josh Lucas	New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.	117
Loni Anderson	In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.	117
Norman Jewison	I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.	117
Dries van Noten	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.	117
Pierce Brown	I've always looked at independent booksellers in a romantic light.	117
Josephine de La Baume	My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.	117
Sophia Myles	I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films'.	117
Jay McInerney	I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.	117
Henry Rollins	Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.	118
Charles Kuralt	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.	118
Fran Lebowitz	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.	118
Jo Brand	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.	118
Rain	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.	118
Adrian Tomine	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.	118
Carmen Electra	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.	118
George Hamilton	Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.	118
Neville Marriner	If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.	118
Lauren Willig	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.	118
Philippa Gregory	Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.	118
Thomas Jane	I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.	118
Albert Finney	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.	118
Chuck Palahniuk	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.	119
Curtis Jackson	I have a romantic side.	119
Drew Barrymore	Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.	119
Jennifer Lopez	I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.	119
Nathaniel Hawthorne	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.	119
Rachel Zoe	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.	119
Bela Lugosi	The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.	119
Eric McCormack	My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.	119
Henry Ian Cusick	'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.	119
Joyce Carol Oates	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.	119
Renee Fleming	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.	119
Laurie Holden	I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.	119
Tony Danza	I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.	119
Madhur Bhandarkar	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.	119
Mary Wortley Montagu	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.	119
Meg Ryan	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.	119
Richard Paul Evans	The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.	119
Jaime Camil	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.	119
Virginia Woolf	The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.	120
James Joyce	Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.	120
Harlan Coben	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.	120
Mignon McLaughlin	Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.	120
Noreena Hertz	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.	120
Olga Kurylenko	I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!	120
Wes Anderson	Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.	120
Henry Ian Cusick	I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with.	120
Carter Burwell	In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.	120
Taylor Kinney	To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!	120
Jessica Biel	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?	120
Alexandra Cassavetes	I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.	120
Douglas Booth	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.	121
Fred Durst	I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.	121
Jamie Oliver	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.	121
Padma Lakshmi	I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.	121
David Fincher	For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.	121
Eliza Coupe	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.	121
Gary Paulsen	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.	121
Keeley Hawes	I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.	121
Martin Parr	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.	121
Natalie Zea	I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play.	121
Christopher Atkins	I'm really a romantic at heart.	121
Courtney Barnett	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.	121
Kage Baker	Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.	121
Andrea Riseborough	When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.	121
Rosario Dawson	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.	121
Mae West	A man's kiss is his signature.	122
Diane Kruger	I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.	122
Gloria Swanson	I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.	122
Helen Fisher	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.	122
Ira Sachs	Movies are romantic fantasies.	122
Brian McKnight	I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.	122
Debra Messing	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.	122
Katie Aselton	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.	122
Nicholas Stoller	A good romantic comedy is my favorite movie to watch.	122
Roxane Gay	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.	122
Ali MacGraw	I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.	122
Matt McGorry	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.	122
Emily Dickinson	Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.	123
F. Scott Fitzgerald	I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.	123
Bette Davis	Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.	123
Deepika Padukone	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.	123
Felicity Jones	I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.	123
Mindy Kaling	I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.	123
Orlando Bloom	I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.	123
Sherman Alexie	My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.	123
Bill Clegg	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.	123
Esai Morales	I'm a very romantic person.	123
Nicholas Stoller	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.	123
Norman Jewison	Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.	123
Ranbir Kapoor	'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'	123
Rory Stewart	I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.	123
Eavan Boland	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.	123
Lauren Willig	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?	123
Timothy Olyphant	Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.	123
Carrie-Anne Moss	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.	123
Josh Turner	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.	123
Jaime Camil	Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.	123
John McGahern	When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.	123
Stephen King	French is the language that turns dirt into romance.	124
Gertrude Stein	Romance is everything.	124
Ian Mckellen	Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.	124
Irving Babbitt	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.	124
Rufus Wainwright	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.	124
Gary Lineker	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.	124
Harmony Korine	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.	124
Jason Mraz	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.	124
John Green	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.	124
James Mercer	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.	124
T. S. Eliot	So the lover must struggle for words.	125
Steve Martin	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.	125
Andie MacDowell	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?	125
Daisy Ridley	Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.	125
Geri Halliwell	I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.	125
Michael Haneke	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.	125
Patricia Clarkson	You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.	125
Robyn Davidson	The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.	125
Russell Tovey	I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.	125
Louise Brown	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.	125
Mary Ellen Mark	I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.	125
Teresa Medeiros	Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.	125
James Wolcott	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.	125
Susanna Kearsley	It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.	125
Vladimir Putin	My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.	126
Anne Morrow Lindbergh	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.	126
Douglas Booth	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.	126
Gary Oldman	I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.	126
Holly Black	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.	126
Lawrence M. Krauss	Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.	126
Vanity	I'm a real romantic.	126
Alan Bennett	Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.	126
Kelly Sue DeConnick	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.	126
Matthew Fox	I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.	126
Rachel Cusk	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.	126
Stephanie Sigman	I would love to do a romantic comedy - a good one.	126
Jacqueline Bisset	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.	126
Minnie Driver	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.	126
Sara Ramirez	When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl knows that real life isn't always like these movies, but as a child, I just really loved the story of 'Cinderella.' I found it to be so romantic and just a beautiful movie to watch.	126
Sanjay Dutt	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.	126
Alice McDermott	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.	201
Elizabeth Olsen	I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.	201
Ginnifer Goodwin	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.	201
Jennifer Lopez	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.	201
Bobbie Ann Mason	It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.	201
Jesse L. Martin	I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment.	201
Paula Hawkins	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.	201
Bill Griffith	Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.	201
Matthew Morrison	Cooking is always very romantic!	201
Ricki-Lee Coulter	I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.	201
Armie Hammer	I try to do romantic gestures all the time.	201
Susanna Kearsley	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.	201
Elvis Costello	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.	202
Irwin Shaw	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.	202
Izabella Scorupco	Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.	202
Nick Cave	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.	202
Olga Kurylenko	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.	202
Tony Benn	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.	202
Vanessa Hudgens	I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.	202
Kristen Bell	I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.	202
Kylie Minogue	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.	202
Allison Williams	I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.	202
George Murray	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.	202
Matthew Macfadyen	My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.	202
Romeo Miller	I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.	202
Susanna Kearsley	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.	202
Jamie Campbell Bower	I'm a horrible romantic!	202
Juan Diego Florez	Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things.	202
Christian Bale	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.	203
Naomi Wolf	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.	203
Samuel Butler	It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.	203
Sylvester Stallone	I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.	203
Edward Burns	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.	203
Dylan McDermott	Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.	203
Graham Elliot	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.	203
James Earl Jones	I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.	203
Ewan McGregor	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.	204
Tzipi Livni	A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.	204
Vinnie Jones	I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.	204
Chelsea Handler	That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effort.	204
Jamie Dornan	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.	204
Brody Jenner	I need to be more romantic. I do. I know that's something women really appreciate.	204
Callie Khouri	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.	204
James Earl Jones	Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.	204
Jim Sturgess	I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.	204
Adam Levine	I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.	205
Isla Fisher	The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.	205
Willem Dafoe	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.	205
Cyril Connolly	Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.	205
Anouska Hempel	I always like to read something romantic about the place I'm visiting.	205
Anne Frank	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.	206
Gordon Ramsay	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.	206
Gary Sinise	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.	206
Mandy Moore	I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.	206
Mariella Frostrup	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.	206
Jane Campion	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.	206
Elizabeth Gilbert	Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.	207
Nicole Holofcener	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.	207
Norman Jewison	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.	207
Dave Gahan	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.	207
John Banville	I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.	207
Hugh Grant	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.	208
Mindy Kaling	I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.	208
Cilla Black	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.	208
Georgina Chapman	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.	208
Robert Webb	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.	208
Arjun Rampal	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.	208
Shane Carruth	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.	208
Amanda Peet	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.	208
Catherine Deneuve	That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.	209
Charles Kuralt	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.	209
Emma Watson	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.	209
Giada De Laurentiis	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.	209
Hugh Hefner	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.	209
Salma Hayek	If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.	209
Uma Thurman	I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.	209
Don Johnson	The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.	209
Greg Mottola	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.	209
Lisa Ling	The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.	209
Alison Krauss	Being in the studio is a really romantic time.	209
Brigitte Bardot	Death was like love, a romantic escape.	210
Chuck Palahniuk	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.	210
Colin Farrell	I'm a big old romantic.	210
Fergie	I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.	210
Gwyneth Paltrow	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.	210
Helen Fisher	Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.	210
Nicholas Sparks	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.	210
Colin Trevorrow	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.	210
Richard LaGravenese	I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.	210
Enrique Iglesias	I'm very romantic.	211
Harry Connick, Jr.	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.	211
will.i.am	Romantic love is painful.	211
Kate Beckinsale	When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.	211
Havelock Ellis	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.	212
Joni Mitchell	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.	212
Pat Paulsen	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.	212
Ansel Elgort	I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.	212
Rachel Kushner	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.	212
Shane Carruth	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.	212
William Butler Yeats	How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.	213
Arundhati Roy	I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.	213
Dick Dale	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.	213
Douglas Booth	I'm pretty romantic.	213
Freida Pinto	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.	213
Halle Berry	I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.	213
Hugh Grant	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.	213
Patti Stanger	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.	213
Florence Welch	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.	214
Harold Prince	You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.	214
Harvey Fierstein	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.	214
Lena Dunham	I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.	214
Mason Cooley	Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.	214
Sienna Miller	I was blinded by being a romantic person.	214
David Schwimmer	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.	214
Patrick Swayze	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.	214
Diane Kruger	When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.	215
Kate Beckinsale	I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.	215
Sarah Gavron	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.	215
Stephen Graham Jones	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.	215
Jennifer Saunders	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.	215
Beck	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.	216
Emmanuel Macron	A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.	216
Jeff Bridges	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.	216
Lynda Barry	My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.	216
Prince Royce	I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.	216
Vera Farmiga	I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.	216
Rosamund Pike	I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.	216
Sophie Hannah	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.	216
Helen Fisher	Romantic love is an addiction.	217
Isabella Rossellini	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.	217
Tom Cruise	I'm a romantic.	217
Amber Heard	I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.	217
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.	218
Daniel Radcliffe	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.	218
Carmen Electra	I'm very romantic.	218
Leslie Mann	I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.	218
Jane Campion	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.	218
Alice McDermott	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.	219
Robert Smith	I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.	219
Jason Mraz	I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty.	219
Sebastian Coe	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.	219
Rachel Bilson	I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.	219
Demetri Martin	Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.	220
Julia Roberts	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.	220
Mindy Kaling	On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.	220
Orhan Pamuk	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.'	220
Woody Harrelson	'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.	220
Dorothy Hamill	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.	220
Liya Kebede	I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.	220
Johnny Depp	Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.	221
Reba McEntire	I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.	221
Sheryl Sandberg	It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true.	221
Sylvester Stallone	Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.	221
Alan Furst	Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.	221
Seth Rogen	I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.	222
Claire Tomalin	Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.	222
Sonam Kapoor	I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films!	222
F. Scott Fitzgerald	The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.	223
Robin Wright	Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.	223
Alison Sweeney	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!'	223
Brooke Burke	Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.	223
Mickey Rooney	Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.	223
Gloria Steinem	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.	224
Warren Buffett	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.'	224
Ansel Elgort	My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.	224
J. K. Simmons	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.	224
Sherri Shepherd	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.	224
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.	225
J. K. Simmons	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.	225
Rashida Jones	You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.	225
Stephanie Sigman	Trust is important in any relationship, not just a romantic one.	225
David Duchovny	I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.	226
Guy Kawasaki	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.	226
John Kenneth Galbraith	By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.	226
Aaron Paul	I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.	226
Eric Bana	I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.	226
Spike Jonze	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.	226
Lake Bell	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.	301
Gabrielle Union	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.	301
Stephanie Sigman	I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.	301
Matt Dillon	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.	301
Jodie Foster	Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.	302
Letitia Baldrige	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.	302
Pamela Anderson	I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.	302
Sidney Poitier	I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.	302
Rene Russo	I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.	302
Diane Kruger	I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.	303
Harold Prince	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.	303
Mindy Kaling	What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.	303
Nick Cannon	I am a hopeless romantic, and so is my wife.	303
Twyla Tharp	There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.	303
Damien Chazelle	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.	303
Dylan Lauren	My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'	303
John C. Reilly	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.	303
Ginnifer Goodwin	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.	304
Mindy Kaling	Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.	304
Ayelet Waldman	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.	304
Iris Apfel	I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.	305
Kevin Bacon	I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.	305
Helen Fisher	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.	306
Peter Dinklage	What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.	306
Walt Whitman	When I give I give myself.	307
Fred Durst	I'm a romantic guy.	307
Gene Tierney	I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.	307
Kristen Wiig	I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.	307
Zooey Deschanel	I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.	307
Mariella Frostrup	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.	307
James Gray	Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.	308
Conor Oberst	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.	309
James Gray	There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.	309
John Cusack	I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.	309
Gus Van Sant	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.	310
Wentworth Miller	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.	310
Darin Strauss	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.	310
Jennifer Lopez	A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.	311
Rufus Wainwright	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.	311
Natalie Portman	I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.	312
Tom Hanks	If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.	312
Duncan Jones	I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.	312
Kim Kardashian	I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.	313
Adrian Tomine	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.	313
Rachel Weisz	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.'	313
John Cusack	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.	313
Oscar Isaac	I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.	314
Paul Walker	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.	314
Julianne Moore	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.	314
Tullian Tchividjian	The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.	315
David Lynch	Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.	316
Richard Madden	I've done a few old-style romantic leads now.	316
Jennifer Love Hewitt	I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.	316
Noel Gallagher	My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.	317
Maisie Williams	I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.	317
Mandy Moore	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.	317
Sarah McLachlan	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.	317
Rashida Jones	I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.	318
Betty White	I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.	319
Rachel McAdams	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.	319
Ryan Reynolds	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.	319
Sienna Miller	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.	319
Chiara Ferragni	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!'	319
Jason Reitman	It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.	319
Gia Coppola	There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.	320
Jack Kevorkian	I'm not a romantic.	320
Hill Harper	I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.	321
Antonio Banderas	I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.	322
Helen Fisher	Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.	323
Orhan Pamuk	My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.	323
Orlando Bloom	I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.	323
Amanda Seyfried	I happen to be really a romantic.	324
Zooey Deschanel	Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.	324
Jerry Saltz	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.	325
David Bowie	When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.	326
Willie Nelson	I'm a romantic slob!	326
Leonardo DiCaprio	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.	401
John Cusack	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.	401
Victor Hugo	Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.	402
Colin Trevorrow	'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.	402
Helen Fisher	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.	403
Billy Collins	The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.	404
Roxane Gay	I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.	404
Emma Watson	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.	405
Evangeline Lilly	I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.	405
Hugh Grant	I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.	405
Blake Lively	I love to have my hair down; I love to have my hair full... there's something romantic about it.	406
John Cusack	But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.	406
Al Sharpton	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.	407
P. J. O'Rourke	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.'	408
Joan Didion	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.	408
Karen Salmansohn	Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.	408
Alan Moore	Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!	408
J. K. Simmons	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.	408
Khalil Gibran	And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.	409
Jessica Simpson	I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.	409
Gene Luen Yang	I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.	411
Sienna Miller	The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.	411
Carrie Underwood	In the romantic sense, I'm pretty useless with guys. If I see somebody who I'm attracted to, generally I just think, 'Oh well, he's not interested in me.' The only time that I talk to guys is when they talk to me first.	412
Matthew McConaughey	I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.	412
Pierce Brosnan	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.	412
Ryan Reynolds	I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.	412
Dennis Quaid	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.	412
Henry Rollins	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.	413
P. J. O'Rourke	Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.	413
Martin McGuinness	War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.	413
Helen Fisher	I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.	414
James Lankford	I don't see people who are eager for shutdowns. While some people have a romantic ideal about shutdowns, the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats believe you have to try to work problems out rather than having a shutdown.	414
Chris Evans	I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.	415
Michael Caine	For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?	416
Emma Watson	I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.	418
Ashton Kutcher	You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.	421
Ang Lee	I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.	423
Mariella Frostrup	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.	425
Salma Hayek	My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.	426
Hugh Grant	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.	501
Oscar Wilde	Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.	502
Zooey Deschanel	I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.	502
Mariella Frostrup	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.	502
Leonardo DiCaprio	I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say, 'OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles.' Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be - you know what I mean?	504
Dick Cavett	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.	505
Ashley Tisdale	I'm a big romantic, so I love guys who are romantic too.	505
Nicola Sturgeon	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.	509
Ashton Kutcher	I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal.	510
Robert Gottlieb	Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.	510
Helen Fisher	I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.	514
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu	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.	519
Gillian Jacobs	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.	521
Rush Limbaugh	Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.	522
Chris Pine	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.	526
Sandra Bullock	Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.	526
Sandra Bullock	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.	602
Chris Pine	I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.	607
Jose Andres	For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.	607
Al Franken	Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.	612
Sandra Bullock	I've never been a blind romantic.	619
Tom Stoppard	I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.	620
Alanis Morissette	My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.	623
Andy Serkis	If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.	701
Ian Mckellen	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.	703
Tracy Morgan	The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!	716
Joss Whedon	I love a good romantic comedy.	809
Dolly Parton	I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.	823
Oscar Wilde	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.	824
Richard Dawkins	I love romantic poetry.	1007
Tom Stoppard	Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.	1023
Taylor Swift	It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.	1025

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