I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I’ve been through. And I’m still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.
I’m a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness – beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
I’m a big old romantic.
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.
As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it’s kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.
The phrase ‘off with the crack of the bat’, while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
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.
When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that’s not it. It’s a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel – I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
The desire for romantic love in marriage is deeply rooted in our psychological makeup.
Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you’d do better to work on your future resilience.
With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.
The prince in ‘The Leopard’ was a very complex character – at times autocratic, rude, strong – at times romantic, good, understanding – and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.
I’m a romantic guy.
We shouldn’t romanticize rejection. There’s nothing romantic about rejection. It’s horrible.
I feel like you don’t know if someone’s equipped for a romantic relationship until they’re out of their twenties.
When you hear a romantic song, the feeling is incomparable.
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
I used to be addicted to ‘Reader’s Digest’ growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that’s where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to – at best – three years.
