383 private quotes tagged romantic

“Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'”— Rachel Weisz

“I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.”— Olivia Wilde

“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”— Walter Hagen

“It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.”— Jason Reitman

“You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.”— Fiona Apple

“I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.”— Orlando Bloom

“I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.”— Harry Connick, Jr.

“I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.”— Ang Lee

“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. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.”— 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

“I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.”— Taylor Lautner

“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

“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.”— Marya Mannes

“People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.”— Gary Oldman

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”— John Keats

“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'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'”— Archie Panjabi

“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

“When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.”— David Coverdale

“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

“The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.”— Joan Chen

“I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.”— Diane Kruger

“Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.”— Elizabeth Gilbert

“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 don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.”— Robert Smith