Romantic Quotes

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

"I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women."

"I'm from the punk generation, but I make romantic, soft soul music. I like the bizarre disconnect of that but, clearly, some people don't."

"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."

"Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most."

"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."

"I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm definitely a romantic person but I never really think about my wedding that much. I think I'd like to be engaged, but maybe not get married."

"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."

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

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

"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."

"My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Romantics consider common sense vulgar."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world."

"I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head."

"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."

"I'm a romantic slob!"

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

"I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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!"

"On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary."

"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."

"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."

"A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key."

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

"Death was like love, a romantic escape."

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

"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."

"You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years."