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If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.
— Alain de Botton
I'm personally a hopeless romantic. I always have been.
— Brett Young
When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.
— R. Kelly
I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.
— Stephanie Sigman
I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
— Padma Lakshmi
I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
— Emma Watson
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
— Pat Paulsen
I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.
— Shane Carruth
Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
— Daisy Ridley
When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.
— David Bowie
I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
— Aaron Sorkin
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.
— Gloria Steinem
Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.
— Sandra Bullock
When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.
— Helen Fisher
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I absolutely love Ireland. It's one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and I have strong ties here. Both my grandmothers are from Ireland, and I have spent every summer in Bantry since my father, who is an artist, had the romantic idea 20 years ago to buy an old farmhouse on the west coast and renovate it.
— Emily Ratajkowski
Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.
— Monica Bellucci
Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.
— Isabella Rossellini
Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
— Martin Parr
You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
— Harold Prince
Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.
— Jeanne Marie Laskas
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
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
I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor. 
— Matthew Macfadyen
Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.
— Frank Black
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
— Sally Kellerman
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
— Oscar Wilde
They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
— P. J. O'Rourke
It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.
— Taylor Swift
I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
— Dolly Parton
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.
— Rush Limbaugh
I love romantic poetry.
— Richard Dawkins
Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.
— Tom Stoppard
I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.
— Tom Stoppard
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
When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I love a good romantic comedy.
— Joss Whedon
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
— Ian Mckellen
The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
— Ian Mckellen
I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.
— James Wan
My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me. It wasn't some romantic, patriotic vision of Scotland going back to what it had been 300 years previously.
— Nicola Sturgeon
The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!
— Tracy Morgan
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
— Orlando Bloom
My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
— Alanis Morissette
If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.
— Andy Serkis
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
— Jerry Saltz
When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.
— Jo Brand
Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
— Al Franken
I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
— Zooey Deschanel
Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
— Zooey Deschanel
I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
— Zooey Deschanel
I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.
— Pierce Brosnan
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
— Sylvester Stallone
I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.
— Sandra Bullock
I've never been a blind romantic.
— Sandra Bullock
I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.
— Chris Pine
My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.
— Chris Pine
For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.
— Jose Andres
I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day?
— Alain de Botton
I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
— Sia
A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.
— Emmanuel Macron
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
— Robert Gottlieb
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
— Adam McKay
Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.
— Helen Fisher
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.
— Helen Fisher
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
— Helen Fisher
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
— Helen Fisher
I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
— Helen Fisher
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
— Helen Fisher
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
— Helen Fisher
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
— Helen Fisher
You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.
— Ashton Kutcher
I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal.
— Ashton Kutcher
I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.
— Evangeline Lilly
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
— Nick Cave
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
— Nick Cave
If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
— Laura Dern
In the romantic sense, I'm pretty useless with guys. If I see somebody who I'm attracted to, generally I just think, 'Oh well, he's not interested in me.' The only time that I talk to guys is when they talk to me first.
— Carrie Underwood
A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'
— Gillian Jacobs
As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.
— Gillian Jacobs
'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
— R. Kelly
I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
— Kate Moss
I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.
— Sydney Pollack
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
— Rachel Kushner
These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
— Rachel Kushner
I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
— Felicity Jones
I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
— Sam Hunt
Death was like love, a romantic escape.
— Brigitte Bardot
Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
— Robin Wright
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.
— Salma Hayek
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
— Salma Hayek
To me, little Mike Wazowski is one of the best characters I ever got to play because he was funny. He was outrageous. He got angry. He was romantic. He was a full, well-rounded character.
— Billy Crystal
People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.
— Jason Isbell
At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor's note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there's something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that.
— Meghan Markle
I'm from L.A., so I'm used to seeing people in sunglasses and flip-flops. There's something so romantic about a man in a scarf and a knitted hat.
— Meghan Markle
I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
— Ang Lee
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.
— Gary Lineker
We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.
— Gary Lineker
I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.
— Spike Jonze
I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
— David Duchovny
There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
— Dick Cavett
I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
— Kevin Bacon
If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic.
— Kevin Bacon
Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.
— Darius Rucker
I'm a big romantic, so I love guys who are romantic too.
— Ashley Tisdale
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
— Virginia Woolf
I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
— Matthew McConaughey
For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
— Michael Caine
I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.
— Juliana Hatfield
I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say, 'OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles.' Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be - you know what I mean?
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
— Hugh Grant
As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.
— Hugh Grant
I never meant to be in romantic comedies; it's just what ended up happening. But they are tricky, in a post-1960s sexual revolution way. It was easier when you couldn't have sex scenes: everything crackled very nicely. They're not easy.
— Hugh Grant
It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true.
— Sheryl Sandberg
I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.
— Ansel Elgort
My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.
— Ansel Elgort
Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.
— Julianne Moore
I don't think of myself as a romantic person; I'm kind of more rough and tumble, I think. The things I'm drawn to are outdoorsy, I only get dressed up when I have to. I'm drawn to women who are into the same type of thing. If you're going to call it romantic, I'm very spontaneous. That's probably the best thing I have going for me.
— Paul Walker
Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable that's survival. 
— Demetri Martin
That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effort.
— Chelsea Handler
I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me I'm not that girl. 
— Maisie Williams
What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.
— Peter Dinklage
You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
— Omari Hardwick
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
It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.
— Jason Mraz
I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty.
— Jason Mraz
Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result being neither romantic nor comedic.
— Edward Zwick
Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.
— Edward Zwick
Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably suits you better to go out for dinner. But I love cooking and always have.
— Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!
— Alan Moore
You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.
— Mariella Frostrup
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
— Mariella Frostrup
Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.
— Mariella Frostrup
In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
— Walt Mossberg
That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of.
— Hannah Simone
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.
— Rashida Jones
You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.
— Rashida Jones
I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.
— Chris Evans
There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.
— Greg Gutfeld
I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.
— Hill Harper
I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.
— Debbie Reynolds
I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.
— Steve Carell
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.
— Khaled Hosseini
A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.
— Jennifer Coolidge
I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.
— Sienna Miller
I was blinded by being a romantic person.
— Sienna Miller
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
— Sienna Miller
War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.
— Martin McGuinness
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
— David Lynch
There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.
— Gia Coppola
Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.
— Chris Martin
I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.
— Rebecca Hall
I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.
— Rufus Wainwright
The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.
— Rufus Wainwright
I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.
— Ryan Reynolds
The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
— Ryan Reynolds
I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.
— Gene Luen Yang
Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.
— Karen Salmansohn
I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.
— Jurgen Klopp
I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.
— Nargis Fakhri
Akshay's idea of a romantic date is a six-kilometre jog, followed by 500 crunches... together! Eeeeks!
— Twinkle Khanna
I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.
— Jessica Simpson
I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
— Duncan Jones
Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.
— Melvyn Bragg
All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?
— Kapil Sibal
An excellent wine, someone's best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.
— Letitia Baldrige
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
— John Cusack
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
— John Cusack
I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
— John Cusack
I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.
— John Cusack
Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the consumer with the best products at the lowest prices.
— Paul Craig Roberts
Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
— Yami Gautam
To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
— Yami Gautam
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
— Chevy Chase
My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.
— Eric McCormack
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
— Jodie Foster
I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
— Oscar Isaac
A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.
— Tzipi Livni
In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.
— Jean-Michel Jarre
I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
— Julia Roberts
The underdog winning is the romantic position.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise.
— Jacqueline Fernandez
When I am in love, I am ridiculously and hopelessly romantic.
— Jacqueline Fernandez
My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.
— Noel Gallagher
Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
— Alan Furst
I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.
— Dennis Quaid
I am a huge romantic at heart.
— Armaan Malik
I don't see people who are eager for shutdowns. While some people have a romantic ideal about shutdowns, the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats believe you have to try to work problems out rather than having a shutdown.
— James Lankford
I am a very romantic person, and I love 'love' - however cheesy that sounds!
— Armaan Malik
I can sing in various genres, but my heart truly lies in singing romantic songs. This has been my forte ever since I was 8 or 9.
— Armaan Malik
The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.
— Rupert Friend
I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.
— John Grant
Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.
— John C. Reilly
I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.
— Roxane Gay
I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.
— Helena Bonham Carter
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
— Lydia Millet
A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key. 
— Jennifer Lopez
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
— Colin Trevorrow
'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.
— Colin Trevorrow
I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.
— Florence Welch
I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
— Lena Dunham
I happen to be really a romantic.
— Amanda Seyfried
My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.
— J. K. Simmons
There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.
— J. K. Simmons
I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
— J. K. Simmons
I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.
— Walter Kirn
I'm a romantic slob!
— Willie Nelson
It's a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very romantic.
— Douglas Booth
It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.
— Douglas Booth
I'm pretty romantic.
— Douglas Booth
I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco.
— Mike D
Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there.
— Mike D
The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.
— Billy Collins
I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
— Sam Smith
I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.
— Al Sharpton
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
— Sarah McLachlan
I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.
— Christian Bale
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.
— Christian Bale
The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.
— Christian Bale
Any woman can make pole dancing a regular part of their exercise routine - and a fun part of their romantic life!
— Kendra Wilkinson
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
— James Gray
The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.
— James Gray
I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.
— Allison Williams
I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.
— Dennis Farina
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.
— Ethan Canin
Everything is just so much more romantic and real when it's yours and it's private.
— Dove Cameron
I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
— Mandy Moore
I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.
— Mandy Moore
I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
— Gary Oldman
Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy. They're actually super technical, like, 'Move your head; you're blocking her light,' or, 'Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her.'
— Will Poulter
I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
— Rachel McAdams
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
— Ben Affleck
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
— Danica McKellar
I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.
— Antonio Banderas
After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits - all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic.
— Cilla Black
I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.
— Vanessa Hudgens
I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.
— Dhanush
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
— Fiona Apple
I'm not a romantic.
— Jack Kevorkian
I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.
— Robert Webb
I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.
— Taylor Lautner
So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.
— Ayelet Waldman
Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.
— Ayelet Waldman
I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.
— Diane Kruger
When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.
— Diane Kruger
It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.
— Jason Reitman
I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films!
— Sonam Kapoor
Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!
— Mindy Kaling
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
— Mindy Kaling
I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.
— Mindy Kaling
Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.
— Mindy Kaling
When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.
— Mindy Kaling
On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.
— Mindy Kaling
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.
— Lenny Abrahamson
I am very romantic. In fact, I just renewed my vows... although it was with another woman.
— Kevin Nealon
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
— Catherine Deneuve
I love it when a man cooks it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks. 
— Olga Kurylenko
I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
— Olga Kurylenko
With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.
— Noreena Hertz
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
I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
— Gus Van Sant
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
— Orhan Pamuk
My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
— Orhan Pamuk
My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.
— Sherri Shepherd
I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally' is kind of a benchmark for me, but I'm very happy to admit that I love 'Pretty Woman.' I do! It's a great film, and so is 'Sixteen Candles.' I was a big John Hughes fan - still am. I have moments where I have to watch a Hughes film.
— Jamie Dornan
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
— Sidney Poitier
I'm a romantic guy.
— Fred Durst
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
— Beck
I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.
— Reba McEntire
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
— Italo Calvino
I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.
— Wentworth Miller
I'm such a romantic at heart.
— Morten Tyldum
The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'
— Chiara Ferragni
I've done a few old-style romantic leads now.
— Richard Madden
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
— Sean Penn
I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.
— Miranda Hart
I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
— Pamela Anderson
I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
— Vera Farmiga
It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.
— Sarah Gadon
Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.
— Martin Parr
Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.
— Claire Tomalin
When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.
— Adrian Tomine
I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.
— Adrian Tomine
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. 
— Elizabeth Gilbert