Romantic Quotes

"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"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"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"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"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"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist"

John McGahern, Writer

"I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic"

Christina Ricci, Actress

"When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho"

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress

"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

"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"Basically, I'm a romantic"

Pia Zadora, Actress

"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

"I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama"

Pia Zadora, Actress

"I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy"

Linda Fiorentino, Actress

"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

"After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it"

Nicholas Mosley, Novelist

"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

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