I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
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.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
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.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.
~By Sheryl Lee ~
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
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.
~By Kristen Bell ~
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.
~By Jean-Michel Basquiat ~
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.
~By Jane Campion ~
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
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.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
~By David McCallum ~
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.
~By Richard Thompson ~
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
~By Anita Brookner ~
The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.
~By Paul Lynde ~
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.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
~By Thomas Mann ~
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
~By Donna Tartt ~
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.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
~By Thomas Wolfe ~
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.
~By Buchi Emecheta ~
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
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.
~By Jason Isaacs ~
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.
~By Naomi Watts ~
I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
~By Pia Zadora ~
I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.
~By Joe Lando ~
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
~By Salma Hayek ~
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.
~By Meg Ryan ~
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
~By Marya Mannes ~
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
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.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
~By Alex O'Loughlin ~
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
~By Eugene Kennedy ~
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.
~By Sally Kellerman ~
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
~By Boris Vallejo ~
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
~By Johnny Depp ~
I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.
~By Jeremy London ~
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
~By Andre Maurois ~
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.
~By Chevy Chase ~
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
~By Arthur Symons ~
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
~By James L. Brooks ~
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.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
I'm really a romantic at heart.
~By Christopher Atkins ~
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
~By John McLaughlin ~
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
~By James D'arcy ~
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.
~By Jennifer Love Hewitt ~
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
~By Henry Ellis ~
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.
~By Dick Dale ~
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.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
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.
~By John Dos Passos ~
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.
~By Bill Pullman ~
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.
~By Julia Roberts ~
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
~By Robert Smith ~
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.
~By Joe DiMaggio ~
My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
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.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
~By James Joyce ~
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
~By Glenn Beck ~
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
~By Thom Gunn ~
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.'
~By Warren Buffett ~
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
~By Walter Hagen ~
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
~By Carter Burwell ~
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
~By Bill Griffith ~
I'm a very romantic person.
~By Esai Morales ~
Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
~By John Boorman ~
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.
~By Brooke Burke ~
The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
~By Bill Veeck ~
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.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
~By Neville Marriner ~
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.
~By Jill Bennett ~
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.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
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.
~By Brian Lumley ~
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.
~By Robert Frank ~
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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.
~By George Murray ~
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!
~By George Herman ~
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.
~By Norman Jewison ~
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.
~By Christian Bale ~
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
~By Carter Burwell ~
Basically, I'm a romantic.
~By Pia Zadora ~
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.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
~By Margaret Chase Smith ~
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
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.
~By Thomas Moore ~
Are we simply romantically challenged, or are we sluts?
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
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.
~By Joan Chen ~
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
~By Ang Lee ~
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.
~By Anne Boyd ~
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
~By Max Eastman ~
Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.
~By Tim Roth ~
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