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

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“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

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

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

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“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

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

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

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

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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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

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

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“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

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

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

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“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

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“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

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

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

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

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

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

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“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

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