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Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.