I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
— James L. Brooks
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
— James Gray
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
— James Earl Jones
I've been lucky enough to have a lot of romantic leads in movies and indies, and you do form a different kind of connection when you do that together as actors.
— Jake Johnson
I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
— Jaime Camil
My personal style changes wherever I am. When I'm in Ibiza, I'm a bit girlier because there's an opportunity to be more romantic and dress up for the beach scene. Whereas in New York, I tend to go for suiting and tailoring that almost feels like weaponry for the city - but I think I'm quite playful no matter what.
— Jade Jagger
I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.
— Jacqueline Bisset
I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.
— Jack Lowden
I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
— J. K. Simmons
Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
— Izabella Scorupco
Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.
— Isabella Rossellini
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
— Irving Babbitt
Movies are romantic fantasies.
— Ira Sachs
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
— Igor Stravinsky
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
— Ian Mckellen
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
— Hugo Weaving
My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.
— Hugh Hefner
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
— James Joyce
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
— James D'arcy
I occasionally wear Miss Dior perfume. It's quite elegant and feminine. It reminds me of a romantic evening out.
— Jaimie Alexander
I'm more likely to give you a cuddle than a punch in the face. I have a soft side, especially with my girlfriend. I send her flowers and use my culinary skills to pull off romantic meals. I do great Thai dishes.
— Jai Courtney
When I am in love, I am ridiculously and hopelessly romantic.
— Jacqueline Fernandez
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
— Jack White
I'm not a romantic.
— Jack Kevorkian
There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
— Italo Calvino
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
— Irwin Shaw
I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
— Irrfan Khan
The Beverly Cinema in L.A. screens old, artsy movies for half the price of regular theaters. It has an old-school vibe to it. It's cheap, and the selection of movies is always interesting and different. Very romantic!
— Inbar Lavi
The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
In Poland, the whole saying is, 'You've got one eye to Morocco and the other to the Caucasus.' That's the heart of the culture. In England, they say it less romantic: 'You've got a wandering eye.' The saying means my main stream in life must be Deep Purple. That's my main job. Then every now, and I can wander off and have one eye to Morocco.
— Ian Gillan
I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
I could never understand, when I watch romantic comedies, the notion that for some reason, unattractive or heavy people don't fall in love. If they do, it's in some odd, kooky, roundabout way - and it's not. It's exactly the same.
— James Corden
Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.
When we are young, revolution is the most romantic thing.
— Jaggi Vasudev
Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise.
I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
— Jack Falahee
My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.
The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.
— Isla Fisher
There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.
— Irving Stone
I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
— Iris Apfel
I like watching romantic comedies and animation.
— Ileana D'Cruz
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
— Ian Frazier
For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.
— Hugh Skinner
