"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic"

"Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person"

"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 am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends"

"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"

"I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette"

"I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine"

"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"

"Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today"

"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young"

"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't"