Romantic Quotes

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

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.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

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.

I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

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

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

Basically, I'm a romantic.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.

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.

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

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

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.

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

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

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

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

I'm a romantic guy.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.