"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

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

"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"