Romantic Quotes: Love Notes and Whispers from the Heart

"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"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"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"

Christian Bale, Actor

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

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"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"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"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"

Chow Yun-Fat, Actor

"I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is"

Matthew Modine, Actor

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

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment"

James Joyce, Novelist

"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"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"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"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"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"

Christian Bale, Actor

"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"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"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"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"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"

Sally Kellerman, Actress

"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"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"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"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful"

Paul Simon, Musician

"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"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"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"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"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder"

Andre Maurois, Writer

"I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

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

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"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"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts"

Italo Calvino, Journalist

"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art"

Walter Hagen, Athlete

"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"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"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"

Joan Chen, Actress

"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians"

Neville Marriner, Musician

"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"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

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

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"I'm very romantic"

Enrique Iglesias, Musician

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