Romance is the art of making someone feel chosen. These quotes capture the butterflies, the grand gestures, the quiet moments, and the particular electricity that exists between two people who have decided to pay close attention to each other.
“Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.”
“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.”
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
“The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.”
“So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.”
“Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.”
“It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.”
“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.”
“There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.”
“I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.”
“I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.”
“Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.”
“I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.”
“I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.”
“On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.”
“It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.”