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I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.
— Jodi Benson
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
— Jonathan Carroll
I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it's home - Texas is home. I've been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile.
— Cristela Alonzo
I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.
— Fred Armisen
I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.
— Judy Holliday
But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.
— Theodor Herzl
Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
— Jimmy Connors
On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.
— Ze Frank
I like girls that have a nice smile and nice eyes. I want to date a girl who understands my busy schedule and that I have to be on tour a lot. And she has to make me laugh!
— Austin Mahone
I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers.' People were more afraid of me. There was a point where I got a little surly. There were only so many chicken wings I could serve before losing the smile on my face.
— Melissa Rauch
I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.
— Jean Dujardin
Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile. 
— Joyce Giraud
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
— James Young
We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
— Tahar Rahim
I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.
— John O'Donohue
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
— Neil Cavuto
We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.
— Paul Reiser
Women do come up to me, and they tell me what they think! I've gotten great compliments on my eyes and my smile. But I don't see myself as sexy.
— Jesse L. Martin
My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'
— Amber Le Bon
We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.
— David Neeleman
When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.
— Sue Wicks
I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much.
— Tika Sumpter
I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.
— Carson Kressley
People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.
— Jim Broadbent
I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
— Gail Carriger
I can retire from football with a smile on my face.
— John Matuszak
We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
— Barry White
When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right.
— Greg Norman
A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.
— Ali Smith
I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.
— Chris Colfer
I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.
— Heather Matarazzo
Southerners smile more than other Americans.
— John Shelton Reed
In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.
— Candice Accola
I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
— Robert Powell
I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.
— Al Madrigal
My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.
— Charles M. Blow
The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.
— Michael Clarke Duncan
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
— Neil Kinnock
What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person.
— James Lafferty
Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces.
— John Wells
While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
— Shelley Berman
I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.
— Paul Kane
When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
— Patti Scialfa
I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.
— Michelle Kwan
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
— Herman Hesse
Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing.
— Cecelia Ahern
I come to work with a smile and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful.
— Robert Knepper
I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'
— Eve Babitz
I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
— Walter Payton
I love to see the smiles on people's faces when you cook for them. I love to go to different restaurants. I want to cook because I know this acting isn't going to last forever, and I want something to fall back on. It's another way to make people smile.
— Raven-Symone
People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
— Jose Gonzalez
I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.
— Brigitte Nielsen
Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
— Rachael Harris
I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.
— Brian J. White
Very few things are totally devoid of any possibility of humor. If you are aware of that possibility and alive to the scene becoming that way, then it just happens naturally. That's what I feel living is like, too. I find a lot of things that make me smile or make me laugh over the course of the day.
— Tom Drury
In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.
— David Wells
I have a smile 24/7.
— Candis Cayne
My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
— Florentijn Hofman
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
— Abraham Cahan
Anybody who knows me knows that I'm just here to put a smile on people's faces.
— Jason Mitchell
There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
— Alma Guillermoprieto
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
— Marguerite Gardiner
I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.
— Creed Bratton
I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.
— Stephanie Beacham
Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you're going to be scared to death. There's something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.
— Ashley Bell
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
— Raina Telgemeier
I smile every time I hear that I'm a fan favorite or a teenage hottie. It is a nice compliment, and the remarks from the fans are great.
— Sean Berdy
I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes.
— Rebecca Black
One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.
— Max Walker
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
— A. Scott Berg
As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.
— Harriet Walter
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.
— Sarah Addison Allen
Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder.
— Gordon Taylor
Tanzanians are some of the friendliest you'll ever meet, insisting on a welcoming smile and wave as they pass you on the streets, exclaiming 'Jambo!'
— Jodi Balfour
I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.
— Corbin Bleu
I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.
— John Rowland
One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.
— Jenna McCarthy
I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.
— Simone Signoret
I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.
— Kara Lindsay
I enjoy what Twitter is because I can really connect with the fans and it's a great way to share information with them and it's also a great way to entertain. I like being able to put a smile on people's faces and letting them know what I'm doing.
— Peter Facinelli
If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.
— Jim Allchin
I'm not looking for anything more than any other guy. I like a good smile. Pretty eyes. She has to be active, like not play-sports active, but she'll play air hockey, do some pool, go for rides on the Santa Monica Pier. I would much rather have fun with her than do the cool thing.
— Mitchel Musso
I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
— Donald Dunn
When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.
— Catherine Martin
It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.
— Angie Everhart
You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
— Agnes Bruckner
Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.
— Douglas Fairbanks
I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.
— Charlie Sifford
I love to see people laugh and put a smile on peoples' faces. Anytime I'm doing that I'm happy.
— Dexter Darden
I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.
— Rau'Shee Warren
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.
— Freddy Fender
I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.
— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the magazine covers. I had never seen anyone smile the way these girls smile! It's like they have nothing to worry about!
— Anchee Min
'Try Again' - every time I hear that song, it just brings a smile to your face. When you're feeling like crap, and you hear, 'Dust yourself off and try again,' it kind of just puts you in a different mindset, 100 percent.
— Alexandra Shipp
When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.
— Rolf Harris
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
— John Philpot Curran
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.
— Jean-Francois Cope
I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.
— Miranda Seymour
Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.
— Lilly Pulitzer
I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.
— Thomas Kretschmann
I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.
— Kevin Cramer
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
— Samuel Pepys
Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.
— Maxim Knight
Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
— Odeya Rush
I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.
— Michael Joseph Kelly
My mom's one of the toughest ladies I know. I've seen her lose both her brothers, both her parents. She's been through a lot, and to see her get up every day and put a smile on her face, that shows nothing but strength.
— DeMar DeRozan
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
— Giacomo Leopardi
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.
— Ray Conniff
When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
— Andrea Thompson
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
— Julien Benda
I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.
— Norman Cook
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
— Guy de Maupassant
The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.
— Howard E. Koch
From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
— Lara Pulver
When I used to wrestle professionally, I preferred being the bad guy known as 'The Heel;' you would get to 'work the crowd,' getting them to hate you and want to see you lose, while the good guy 'Babyface' would walk in, smile and shake hands with a few kids, and his acting job was done.
— Conan Stevens
I spend days on my Xperia logging on Facebook chatting with my friends and family at home; I love listening to Rihanna and Pink and watching movies. Basically, anything that makes me smile, but most of my fans will know that I am always smiling!
— Dominika Cibulkova
My eyes are different sizes, my nose is too broad at the bridge and squishes up when I laugh, and my lips are sorta funny when I smile.
— Terry Farrell
I love to smile.
— Inge de Bruijn
Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
— Byron Nelson
When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my life; it inspired me; it made me feel good every time.'
— Ledisi
I don't hear a lot about elected officials that are men talking about whether they smile a lot. My dad was in elected office my entire life. I don't remember many smiles, and nobody commented about it. He was serious about his job, and so am I.
— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
— Gabriel Medina
I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
— Victoria Hanley
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!
— William Cartwright
You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.
— Teemu Selanne
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
— Farley Mowat
Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
— Barbara Hambly
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
— Horace Porter
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
— Elinor Wylie
When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.
— Charles Frohman
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
— Robert Southwell
Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.
— Sonny Chiba
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
— Peter B. Lewis
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
— Earl Hines
I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.
— Diana Lynn
We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
— A. E. Hotchner
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
— Arthur Bremer
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
— Minna Antrim
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
— Charlie Chaplin
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
— Sylvia Plath
There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
— Paul Simon
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
— Luciano De Crescenzo
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
— John Keats
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
— Robert Herrick
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
— Lord Byron
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
— William Butler Yeats
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
— Edmond de Goncourt
A man's kiss is his signature.
— Mae West
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
— Arthur Symons
I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.
— Anne Frank
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
— Mason Cooley
When I give I give myself.
— Walt Whitman
I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
— Rachel McAdams
My heart is like a singing bird.
— Christina Rossetti
All I ever wanted was to be a sexy bride, and actually, I think I've turned into a romantic bride.
— Poppy Delevingne
Romantic love is an addiction.
— Helen Fisher
Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.
— Kimberly Schlapman
You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
— Carolina Herrera
When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.
— Cary Fukunaga
The most impactful place that I've been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.
— Hill Harper
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
— Samuel Butler
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
— Halle Berry
It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.
— Will Estes
Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.
— Marc Jacobs
I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
— Louis Tomlinson
I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.
— Pierce Brosnan
I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
— Morgan Freeman
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
— Laura Marling
I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
— Gary Paulsen
And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.
— Michael Haneke
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
— Nathaniel Branden
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
— Stephen King
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
— Steve Martin
Romantic love is painful.
— will.i.am
Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
— Randeep Hooda
I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic rocker.
— Luis Fonsi
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
— Mindy Kaling
I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
— Irvin D. Yalom
I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
— Alex Turner
A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.
— Edward VIII
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.
— Fran Lebowitz
Romance is everything.
— Gertrude Stein
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
— Robert Herrick
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.
— Bob Hoskins
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
— Ella Maillart
My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.
— Wild Bill Hickok
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
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
— Thomas Wolfe
I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.
— Kim Kardashian
I love to have my hair down I love to have my hair full... there's something romantic about it. 
— Blake Lively
I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.
— Twinkle Khanna
I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
— Conrad Hall
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
— James Joyce
I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.
— Jamie Oliver
The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
— Vanessa Paradis
If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.
— Louis C. K.
I am a hopeless romantic.
— Jessica Brown Findlay
Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.
— Liu Wen
The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
— Ali MacGraw
I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.
— Chris Lowell
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
— Mara Brock Akil
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
— Jerry Lee Lewis
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
— Joan Didion
I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home. So I did this whole romantic setup in our bedroom with flowers and rose petals. She was so mad when she got home, but then when she walked in, she was so surprised.
— Trey Songz
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
— Rainbow Rowell
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
— Robert Smith
In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.
— Sydney Pollack
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Upsi is definitely the more romantic of the two. I am more laid back. We do have our differences of opinion sometimes. Upsi is always the first one to break the ice after an argument or a difference of opinion. That's what I love most about her.
— Ram Charan
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
— Tom Hanks
I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
— Aaron Paul
I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
— Morgan Freeman
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
— Rachel Zoe
I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
— Fergie
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
— Bela Lugosi
I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.
— Esha Gupta
Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.
— Jen Kirkman
I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.
— Jeff Giles
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
— Joan Armatrading
Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.
— Sunny Deol
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
— James D'arcy
I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
— Betty White
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
— Billy Graham
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
— Bernard Williams
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
— Emma Watson
I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
— Iris Apfel
We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
— Warren Buffett
So the lover must struggle for words.
— T. S. Eliot
It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.
— Brittany Murphy
I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
— Nargis Fakhri
If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.
— Gordon Ramsay
The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.
— Matthew McConaughey
I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.
— Shane Carruth
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
— Orlando Bloom
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
— Harlan Coben
I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.
— Mark Shand
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
— Johnny Depp
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
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
I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.
— Dilma Rousseff
It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.
— Conor Oberst
I like sundresses with cowboy boots, little shorts with big wedge heels and a big piece of turquoise. I also love classic, Old Hollywood romantic styles. I'm 'country girl meets city girl' circa 1930.
— Kirsten Prout
In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.
— Vir Das
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
— Kate Christensen
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds. 
— Maeve Binchy
Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
— D. B. Sweeney
I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.
— Yash Chopra
I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
— Nick Cave
Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.
— Mariella Frostrup
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. Call me a romantic, but I think entrepreneurs should try to change the world. This comes from working at Apple... old habits die hard.
— Guy Kawasaki
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
— Douglas Horton
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
— Henry Rollins
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
— Tom Robbins
I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.
— Jennifer Lopez
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
I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.
— Diane Kruger
I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.
— Jeremy London
I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
— Kristen Stewart
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
— Irving Babbitt
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes. 
— Anne Boyd
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.
— Wes Anderson
I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?
— Emeli Sande
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
— Lena Dunham
If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.
— Ryan Gosling
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
— Benjamin Bratt
I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
— Felicity Jones
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
— Francine Pascal
If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.
— Jean Reno
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
— Ben Brantley
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
— Rachel Cusk
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
— Bayard Taylor
I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching.
— Deepika Padukone
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
— Billy Idol
A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.
— Sasha Grey
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
— Stephen Graham Jones
I think the first time I tried to write a romantic song, it was just horrendously embarrassing. I remember thinking, 'Okay, I'm not going to do that anymore.' I think that sort of embarrassed me for the next 10 years.
— Tobias Jesso, Jr.
My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'
— Dylan Lauren