c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
— Harold Prince
'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
— Woody Harrelson
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
— Ewan McGregor
I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
— Joaquin Phoenix
I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.
— Eric Bana
I'm a bit of a romantic.
— Eric Bana
I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.
— Amber Heard
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
— Bette Davis
My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.
— Josh Turner
I could never understand, when I watch romantic comedies, the notion that for some reason, unattractive or heavy people don't fall in love. If they do, it's in some odd, kooky, roundabout way - and it's not. It's exactly the same.
— James Corden
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
— Kate Hudson
I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside - that's because it feels kind of romantic and sexier to me. I really think they are the people that we learn lessons from.
— Willem Dafoe
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
— Gene Tierney
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
— Glenn Beck
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intuition, an inner 'yes.' I don't know if it's destined or not, but certainly I couldn't imagine being the person I am today without the romantic experiences I've had.
— Alden Ehrenreich
I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'
— Hansika Motwani
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
— Harvey Fierstein
A romantic date for me is sitting in pajamas and being with a guy with whom I can be myself.
— Alia Bhatt
I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.
— Alia Bhatt
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
— Natalie Portman
Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.
— Sebastian Coe
With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
— Daniel Woodrell
In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.
— Alice McDermott
Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.
— Alice McDermott
I am still a hard-core romantic.
— Divyanka Tripathi
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
— Walter Dean Myers
I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.
— Josh Hutcherson
Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.
— Patti Stanger
I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.
— Jacqueline Bisset
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
— Lynda Barry
'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
— Ranbir Kapoor
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
— Eva Longoria
Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.
— Susanne Bier
The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.
— Robyn Davidson
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
— Hanna Rosin
I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.
— Kelsey Grammer
I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.
— Cameron Diaz
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
— Gerard Way
I'm a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'
— Alison Sweeney
Movies are romantic fantasies.
— Ira Sachs
After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.
— Darin Strauss
I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.
— Seth Rogen
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
— Sherman Alexie
Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.
— Catherine Hardwicke
German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.
— Janeane Garofalo
I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
— Brooke Burke
Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
— Brooke Burke
I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.
— Kristen Wiig
I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely important to have someone make you feel special.
— Hilary Duff
I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.
— Joe Perry
I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.
— Rutina Wesley
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
— Havelock Ellis
I have a romantic side.
— Curtis Jackson
I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be fun. We had a lot of action in 'Eclipse' and I'd definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they're very expensive and there's not a huge demographic.
— Ashley Greene
I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.
— Rene Russo
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
— James Earl Jones
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
— James Earl Jones
I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.
— Mary Ellen Mark
When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.
— Tinie Tempah
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
— Arthur Smith
I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.
— Jeremy Renner
The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.
— Isla Fisher
I am a hopeless romantic, and so is my wife.
— Nick Cannon
I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.
— Liya Kebede
I would love to do a romantic comedy - a good one.
— Stephanie Sigman
I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.
— Renee Fleming
It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.
— Heather Graham
Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.
— Naomi Wolf
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
— Jane Campion
It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.
— Jane Campion
There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.
— Janine di Giovanni
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
— John Banville
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
— Michael Haneke
I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement.
— Luis Fonsi
In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs.
— Luis Fonsi
The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.
— Luis Fonsi
Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.
— Timothy Olyphant
'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
— Saoirse Ronan
I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.
— Arundhati Roy
Love alone could waken love.
— Pearl S. Buck
It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.
— Alice Cooper
When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence.
— Kylie Minogue
I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.
— Prince Royce
I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.
— Kate Beckinsale
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
— Kate Beckinsale
I've heard stories about movies that are really maybe difficult and really dramatic and good, but they are being sold as romantic comedies. All it's going to do is just... that's hurting the work, because that just makes it impossible for anyone to see it correctly.
— Shane Carruth
The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.
— Shane Carruth
Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.
— Kelly Sue DeConnick
I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
— Sam Yagan
Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.
— Mickey Rooney
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
— Harmony Korine
I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
— Rachel Bilson
If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.
— David Schwimmer
I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.
— Leslie Mann
I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.
— Rosamund Pike
Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.
— Giada De Laurentiis
I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.
— Minnie Driver
If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.
— Dorothy Hamill
Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.
— Carmen Electra
I'm very romantic.
— Carmen Electra
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
— Cyril Connolly
I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
— Keeley Hawes
I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.
— Russell Tovey
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
— Gloria Swanson
I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
— Adam Levine
I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.
— Pedro Almodovar
I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.
— Jennifer Saunders
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
— Madchen Amick
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
— John Sandford
I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life... But I'm not a romantic. I'm just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
— Nayvadius Cash
I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.
— Anne-Marie Duff
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
— Charles Kuralt
Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
— Charles Kuralt
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
— Charles Dance
I'm a romantic.
— Tom Cruise
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
— Richard LaGravenese
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
— Irwin Shaw
I'm a hopeless romantic.
— Lance Bass
Cooking is always very romantic!
— Matthew Morrison
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.
— Sophie Hannah
If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.
— Preity Zinta
Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical and emphasized wine as a romantic, historic beverage. Criticism and comparative tastings were eschewed for fear of offending the trade, which most writers depended upon for survival.
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be. 
— Brian McKnight
For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
— James Mercer
If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
— Joe Carnahan
I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid
The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.
— Lisa Ling
I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.
— Patrick Swayze
I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.
— Elizabeth Olsen
My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
— Carly Rae Jepsen
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
— Portia de Rossi
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
— Brit Marling
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
— Feist
My personal style changes wherever I am. When I'm in Ibiza, I'm a bit girlier because there's an opportunity to be more romantic and dress up for the beach scene. Whereas in New York, I tend to go for suiting and tailoring that almost feels like weaponry for the city - but I think I'm quite playful no matter what.
— Jade Jagger
We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.
— Stephen Graham Jones
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
— Andrew Bird
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.
— Stephen Lang
When you have kids and get older, it goes beyond flowers and chocolate. It's about waking up with a baby, letting her sleep in, and making a coffee for her when she wakes up. To me, being romantic is putting someone else first and thinking about what makes them happy.
— James Marsden
My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.
— Paula Pell
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.
— Freida Pinto
I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.
— Joel Madden
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
— Carter Burwell
Many times an actor is stuck for the lack of choices. The same happened with me when I started my career. That was the time when mainly romantic films were being made, and that is what I was offered all the time.
— Arjun Rampal
I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past.
— Sarah Gavron
It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
— Billy Dee Williams
I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
— Billy Dee Williams
Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.
— Ellen Page
I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.
— Paul Lynde
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
— Walter Isaacson
I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.
— Thomas Jane
I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
— Jaime Camil
Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.
— Jaime Camil
It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.
— Sophie B. Hawkins
I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.
— Nicholas Sparks
The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
— Gary Sinise
I try to do romantic gestures all the time.
— Armie Hammer
In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.
— Amanda Peet
I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.
— Paul O'Grady
I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.
— Elizabeth Reaser
Maybe I don't see enough television, but it seems there aren't many shows that are romantic comedies that are an hour long where you're not solving a crime or being a doctor.
— Elizabeth Reaser
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
— Jamie Oliver
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
— Joseph Barbera
I'm a big old romantic.
— Colin Farrell
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
— Aaron Eckhart
I'm a very romantic person.
— Esai Morales
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
— Aaron Eckhart
I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains.
— Nicholas Stoller
I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.
— Nicholas Stoller
I'm a romantic you have to be to marry four times. 
— Jay McInerney
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
— Doug Liman
A good romantic comedy is my favorite movie to watch.
— Nicholas Stoller
I think the best romantic comedies are hard funny - no soft jokes, but ones that make you, like, guffaw. I also think that they have to make you feel good, ideally, and make you feel warm inside at the end.
— Nicholas Stoller
I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.
— Greg Mottola
My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
— Talulah Riley
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
— David Fincher
The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
— Don Johnson
I love being one half of a romantic couple.
— Julianna Margulies
I'm a horrible romantic!
— Jamie Campbell Bower
I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie - my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times.
— Alison Brie
I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
— Hugo Weaving
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
— Hugo Weaving
With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
— Callie Khouri
I'm more likely to give you a cuddle than a punch in the face. I have a soft side, especially with my girlfriend. I send her flowers and use my culinary skills to pull off romantic meals. I do great Thai dishes.
— Jai Courtney
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
— Ian Frazier
I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
— Uma Thurman
I always like to read something romantic about the place I'm visiting.
— Anouska Hempel
When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.
— Dave Gahan
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
— Donna Tartt
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
— Bai Ling
When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.
— Andrea Riseborough
I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!
— Alice Englert
I seem to be drawn to the really romantic songs.
— Vonda Shepard
Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
— Jojo Moyes
I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.
— Kristen Bell
I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. 'Enough Said' had that stuff, but I wanted it to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality.
— Nicole Holofcener
Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.
— Mara Wilson
Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.
— Alan Bennett
It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It's about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.
— Jim Sturgess
I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.
— Jim Sturgess
Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.
— Dylan McDermott
I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.
— Katie Aselton
I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further.
— James Van Der Beek
Being in the studio is a really romantic time.
— Alison Krauss
My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.
— Georgina Chapman
I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.
— James Van Der Beek
I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.
— Vinnie Jones
There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.
— Gina Prince-Bythewood
'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.
— Henry Ian Cusick
I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with.
— Henry Ian Cusick
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
— Kate Millett
When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
— Morris Chestnut
I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
— Edward Burns
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
— Matthew Macfadyen
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
— Anita Brookner
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
— James L. Brooks
No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.
— Stephenie Meyer
I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
— Norman Jewison
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
— Norman Jewison
And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
— Norman Jewison
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.
— Josh Lucas
I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.
— Debra Messing
It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
— Frank Black
I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.
— Ricki-Lee Coulter
I need to be more romantic. I do. I know that's something women really appreciate.
— Brody Jenner
'Perfect Sense' is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie - where seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination.
— David MacKenzie
I was a huge fan of the bandleader Ray Noble when I was younger. He was one of the biggest musical names of his day and wrote such romantic songs as 'Goodnight Sweetheart' and 'The Touch Of Your Lips.' Wonderful stuff.
— June Whitfield
You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
— Patricia Clarkson
I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.
— Rory Stewart
In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.
— Rory Stewart
I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.
— Eliza Coupe
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
— David Nicholls
It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.
— Matt McGorry
I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute.
— Holly Black
We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.
— Marlon James
A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.
— Sebastian Faulks
For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.
— Greg Berlanti
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
— James Weldon Johnson
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.
— Sebastian Faulks
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
— Bill Griffith
I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
— Paula Hawkins
When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.
— Albert Finney
I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.
— Tony Benn
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
— Dar Williams
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
— Victoria Jackson
'I Am Number Four' is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.
— Alex Pettyfer
I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
— Irrfan Khan
When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.
— Jeff Garlin
I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.
— Rani Mukerji
I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.
— Graham Elliot
Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
— Izabella Scorupco
I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.
— Sinead O'Connor
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
I'm really a romantic at heart.
— Christopher Atkins
I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever.
— Jane Wiedlin
I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
— Madhur Bhandarkar
I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
— Cass McCombs
I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.
— Lauren Willig
Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?
— Lauren Willig
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.
— Ann Voskamp
Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.
— Lauren London
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
— Andrew Sullivan
I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.
— Romeo Miller
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
— M. Ward
When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
— Rainbow Rowell
It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
— Rainbow Rowell
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
— George Murray
I'm sick of playing romantic leads.
— John Corbett
I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting... for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.
— Serinda Swan
I'm looking forward to sproglets but, as I'm the main breadwinner, I feel I ought to capitalise on my career for a bit longer. Mother keeps telling me I should go and freeze some eggs. Not terribly romantic, is it?
— Honeysuckle Weeks
I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a comedy about three young men in New York City, one of whom may or may not be a romantic like me.
— Andre Holland
I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.
— Andre Holland
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
— Thomas Mallon
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
— Susanna Kearsley
When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.
— Susanna Kearsley
Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
— Susanna Kearsley
Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things.
— Juan Diego Florez
Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.
— Mollie King
I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.
— John Stamos
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
— Maggie Gallagher
Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.
— Tim Roth
As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.
— Sanjay Dutt
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
— Louise Brown
As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I do it a lot better than I ever did. I've really opened up a lot. And I'm glad I have because I'm being appreciated for it.
— Sanjay Dutt