Romantic Quotes: Love Notes and Whispers from the Heart (Page 4)

"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises"

Irwin Shaw, Novelist

"As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love"

Nick Carter, Musician

"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy"

James L. Brooks, Producer

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

Margaret Anderson, Editor

"Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music"

Bobby Vinton, Musician

"I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies"

Maria Bello, Actress

"Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it"

Tim Roth, Actor

"Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again"

Rebecca Romijn, Actress

"Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with"

Jane Campion, Director

"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him"

Arthur Symons, Poet

"I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that"

R. Kelly, Musician

"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes"

Anne Boyd, Composer

"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity"

Anne Boyd, Composer

"Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar"

Norman Jewison, Director

"And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar"

Norman Jewison, Director

"I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot"

Sanjay Dutt, Actor

"If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard"

John Dos Passos, Novelist

"As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons"

Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity

"I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with"

Jeremy London, Actor

"I'm a very romantic person"

Esai Morales, Actor

"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs"

Dick Dale, Musician

"The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side"

Don Johnson, Actor

"I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time"

Freddy Fender, Musician

"I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God"

Gabrielle Union, Actress

"A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts"

Charles Dance, Actor

"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'"

Paul O'Grady, Comedian

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