383 private quotes tagged romantic

“I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.”— Carter Burwell

“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 had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!”— Mindy Kaling

“I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.”— Mindy Kaling

“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

“Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.”— Sylvester Stallone

“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

“I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.”— Gary Oldman

“My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.”— Salma Hayek

“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 will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.”— Christian Bale

“The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.”— Christian Bale

“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

“I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.”— Betty White

“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 had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.”— Sidney Poitier

“I'm a romantic guy.”— Fred Durst

“I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.”— Antonio Banderas

“I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.”— Gene Tierney

“If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.”— Tom Hanks

“You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.”— Tom Hanks

“Romantic love is painful.”— will.i.am

“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”— John Kenneth Galbraith

“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

“I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.”— Orlando Bloom