Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.
~ Frank Black
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.
~ Tom Stoppard
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 González Iñárritu
My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me. It wasn't some romantic, patriotic vision of Scotland going back to what it had been 300 years previously.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
~ Zooey Deschanel
In the romantic sense, I'm pretty useless with guys. If I see somebody who I'm attracted to, generally I just think, 'Oh well, he's not interested in me.' The only time that I talk to guys is when they talk to me first.
~ Carrie Underwood
I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.
~ Sydney Pollack
I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
~ Matthew Mcconaughey
For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
~ Michael Caine
Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.
~ Julianne Moore
Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.
~ Melvyn Bragg
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
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
~ Christian Bale
I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.
~ Dennis Farina
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
I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.
~ Dhanush
It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.
~ Jason Reitman
Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.
~ Mindy Kaling
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
~ Catherine Deneuve
I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.
~ Reba Mcentire
The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'
~ Chiara Ferragni
I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
~ Pamela Anderson
I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside - that's because it feels kind of romantic and sexier to me. I really think they are the people that we learn lessons from.
~ Willem Dafoe
A romantic date for me is sitting in pajamas and being with a guy with whom I can be myself.
~ Alia Bhatt
In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.
~ Alice Mcdermott
I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.
~ Tinie Tempah
The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.
~ Isla Fisher
The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.
~ Luis Fonsi
Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.
~ Kelly Sue Deconnick
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
~ Harmony Korine
If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.
~ Preity Zinta
If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
~ Joe Carnahan
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
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
~ Carter Burwell
Many times an actor is stuck for the lack of choices. The same happened with me when I started my career. That was the time when mainly romantic films were being made, and that is what I was offered all the time.
~ Arjun Rampal
The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
~ Gary Sinise
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
~ Aaron Eckhart
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
~ Doug Liman
