Romantic Quotes

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

Neville Marriner, Musician

"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"I'd like to do a romantic comedy"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy"

Jill Bennett, Actress

"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"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair"

William Dunbar, Poet

"More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance"

Max Eastman, Author

"In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"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"

George Murray, Poet

"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"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy"

Izabella Scorupco, Actress

"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"

Brooke Burke, Model

"The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last"

Andrew Sullivan, Journalist

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person"

Margaret Chase Smith, Politician

"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!"

George Herman, Journalist

"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"

Brian Lumley, Writer

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

James Earl Jones, Actor

"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"

Bill Pullman, Actor

"When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"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"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"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"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff"

Thomas Jane, Actor

"I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality"

Hugo Weaving, Actor

"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"

Portia de Rossi, Actress

"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

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

Salma Hayek, 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

"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"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"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"

Jason Isaacs, Actor

"Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep"

Janet Street-Porter

"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"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me"

Joel Madden, Musician

"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them"

Joe Lando, Actor

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

Loni Anderson, Actress

"My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

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