383 private quotes tagged romantic

“I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.”— Rashida Jones

“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

“The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”— Billy Graham

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”— Charlie Chaplin

“Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.”— Jeff Bridges

“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”— Havelock Ellis

“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”— Stephen King

“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”— Andre Maurois

“The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”— Virginia Woolf

“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.”— Julie Delpy

“Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.”— Bobby Vinton

“Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.”— Nancy Meyers

“The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.”— Douglas Horton

“Death was like love, a romantic escape.”— Brigitte Bardot

“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

“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”— Margaret Anderson

“There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.”— Sammy Davis, Jr.

“Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.”— Stephen Moyer

“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

“Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”— Yeardley Smith

“I love being one half of a romantic couple.”— Julianna Margulies

“That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.”— Sean Penn

“The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.”— Anita Brookner

“Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.”— Lillian Gordy Carter

“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