A man’s ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.
Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it’s men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.
The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.
I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
I may have played romantic roles, but each character has been different, with his own personality.
I’m all about making my girl feel like she’s the only woman in the world. Whether it’s telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it’s also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.
I’m not romantic, and I don’t like Christmas.
Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
You could argue that ‘Sweeney Todd’ was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn’t impart that to its audiences. But it’s large, and it’s melodramatic, and it’s a style I like to work in periodically.
I’m personally a hopeless romantic. I always have been.
Here I was, having done a thriller and a horror movie – why did I have the audacity to make a romantic fantasy? How can I continue to make genre films? Well, maybe I don’t want to continue to make genre films.
It’s very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
I’m not a romantic.
Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it’s kind of the same as being president of the United States – it’s not gonna happen.
There’s nothing more romantic after not seeing your husband for four months than to have our first night back together, on a Broadway stage, with 12 million people watching.
The romantic image of the ancient world is very inspiring, as is nature itself, but I think the dissatisfaction with our modern world is the strongest force keeping me going.
Romantic heroes and heroines are a bit different from the sort of people we run into every day.
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.
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
There are several authors who are also lawyers – and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
When I am in love, I am ridiculously and hopelessly romantic.
The other two things are… well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
