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Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Romantic ideas about the heart fly in the face of known fact, but that doesn't matter and never has. People many thousands of years ago knew that the heart is basically a blood pump, but that didn't keep them from also believing it was the seat of romantic love (and all other strong emotion).

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke belching steam locomotives.

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.

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.

For me, it's sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage, because I think so much about marriage starts to become about finances. It has nothing to do with God or feelings or the romantic side of marriage. It's about who owns what, who gets what? So what's the point?

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.

I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a comedy about three young men in New York City, one of whom may or may not be a romantic like me.

I'm the old school, letter writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.

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.

I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!

'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.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

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.

I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times.

I'm a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

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.

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

Intellectual Marvelous

Romanticised Important

Romanticized Glorified

Differently Footsteps

Elaborately Deserving

Friendships Classical

Pleasurable Childhood

Possibility Character

Preparation Believing

Rationalism Beautiful

Romanticize Basically

Flickering Symbolised

Impossible Successful