If a person feels like 'They're not acknowledging me'... That's a very important feeling in life, even if it's not romantic.
— Julia Garner
Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things.
— Juan Diego Florez
I love a good romantic comedy.
— Joss Whedon
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.
— Josh Lucas
My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.
— Josephine de La Baume
For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.
— Jose Andres
Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
— Jojo Moyes
I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.
— John Stamos
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
— John McGahern
My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.
— John Lithgow
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
— John Keats
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
We only part to meet again.
— John Gay
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.
— John Cusack
I'm sick of playing romantic leads.
— John Corbett
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
— John Boorman
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
I love romantic comedies so much.
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.
— Joshua Ferris
I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.
— Josh Hutcherson
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
— Joni Mitchell
I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.
— Johnny Mathis
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
— John Sandford
I'm an incurable romantic. But I'm not an adrenaline junkie.
— John M. Grunsfeld
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
— John Green
My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.
— John Edgar Wideman
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford - rough and full of trainee punks - but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry.
— John Cooper Clarke
I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that is totally different from 'The Blues Brothers.' I'm a comic actor, but I'm an actor, too.
— John Belushi
It's very difficult to have any kind of romantic feelings for a movie where you know exactly what's going to happen in the first five minutes.
— Joe Swanberg
I don't think anybody at the major studios is rushing to offer me a romantic lead.
— Judge Reinhold
We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents.
— Joy Reid
My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.
— Josh Turner
Big romantic gestures are only as strong as the relationships they happen in.
— Josh Gondelman
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
— Joseph Barbera
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
— Jon Krakauer
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
— Johnny Depp
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
— John McLaughlin
My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.
— John Lloyd Young
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.
— John Grant
I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.
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.
Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.
— John C. Reilly
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
— John Banville
