Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and – often times – our romantic decisions.
My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead – even though I’ve never had them – are behind me.
I’d always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.
If you’re a woman and a guy’s ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.
I’m very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.
I like romantic dates – going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.
As a hopeless romantic, I’m drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn’t see much way around it.
I’ve always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I’m a romantic rocker.
I don’t feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
I’m a real romantic.
I love romantic poetry.
Romantic love is painful.
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.
I like playing off strong actors, whether it’s Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I’m a hopeless romantic, so I’m fascinated by relationships.
I am still a hard-core romantic.
Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
I would love to write a mystery – a romantic, funny mystery.
I love romantic comedies more than anything.
In real life, I am not a romantic person. I am a fun person and a complete tomboy.
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
There’s the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it’s had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.
