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Daily Inspiration Quote by 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"

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Hopeless romantic as a confession comes with a preemptive eye-roll built in, and Jennifer Love Hewitt leans into that double register: sincerity with a side of self-disgust. "It's disgusting. It really is". is less self-hatred than self-defense, a way of admitting softness before anyone else can mock it. She names the feeling, then immediately undercuts it, performing the exact emotional choreography a lot of women were expected to master in late-90s/early-2000s pop culture: be earnest, but not so earnest you look naive.

The "While You Were Sleeping" reference is doing heavy cultural work. It's not just a rom-com title drop; it's a shorthand for a whole era of studio-sanctioned comfort, where love is fate with good lighting. Saying she's watched it twenty times frames romance as a consumable ritual, a movie you rewatch like a security blanket. The kicker is "I still believe" - despite repetition, despite knowing the plot mechanics, despite adulthood. That "still" signals both defiance and embarrassment: she knows the Prince Charming idea is corny, even politically suspect, but she wants it anyway.

Coming from an actress whose career was built in the glow of mainstream desirability and sentimental storytelling, the line reads like brand and autobiography colliding. It's a winking admission that the fantasy is manufactured - and an insistence that manufactured doesn't mean meaningless.

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Hewitt, Jennifer Love. (2026, January 16). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-hopeless-romantic-its-disgusting-it-really-133192/

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Hewitt, Jennifer Love. "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." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-hopeless-romantic-its-disgusting-it-really-133192/.

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"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." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-hopeless-romantic-its-disgusting-it-really-133192/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is a Actress from USA.

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