I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
— Ali MacGraw
I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
I think I'm definitely a romantic at heart.
— Alex Roe
I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.
— Alessandro Michele
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intuition, an inner 'yes.' I don't know if it's destined or not, but certainly I couldn't imagine being the person I am today without the romantic experiences I've had.
— Alden Ehrenreich
The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.
— Alaya Dawn Johnson
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!
— Alan Moore
Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.
— Alan Bennett
If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.
— Alain de Botton
Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
— Al Franken
For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic.
— Adrian Tomine
It's not a conscious decision that I only want to do romantic films.
— Aditya Roy Kapur
I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
— Adam Levine
I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
— Aaron Sorkin
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
— Aaron Eckhart
I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.
— Ali Fazal
There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.
'I Am Number Four' is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.
— Alex Pettyfer
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.
I was thinking about vampires and, specifically, about what makes vampires a romantic trope: about what people like about not just vampires but supernaturally long-lived creatures in general, which is a thing that shows up in probably fifty to sixty percent of paranormal romances... And then, for some reason, I decided to reverse it.
Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
— Alan Furst
I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day?
Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.
I do want to make powerful works of art with people, but I also just want to have fun. I've never done a romantic comedy - I'm sure it would be a blast.
— Ahna O'Reilly
When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.
I don't really look at genre. I mean, sometimes you might be playing heavies a lot, and you're like, 'Hey, it'd be nice to do a romantic comedy.'
— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
— Aberjhani
I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
— Aaron Paul
We have to thank the members of the Romantic movement for the sober colours of suits. It was their love of the Gothic that put us in grey and black but the suit stuck.
— A. A. Gill
The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
— Alfred Molina
I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
— Alex Turner
I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.
When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.
— Albert Finney
My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
— Alanis Morissette
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget.
When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.
— Al Sharpton
I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.
I am an incurable romantic. I am even in love with the idea of being in love, and hence, I write a lot of love songs.
— Adnan Sami
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
— Adam McKay
Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
