Given a chance, I would love to romance Tabu. I wouldn’t mind doing a film with Manisha Koirala, either. Or Madhuri Dixit.
I’d like to start writing scripts. I think I’d probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.
No matter where I go, I actually have a lot of couples coming and telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance!
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn’t love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.
I auditioned several times before I got the part in ‘Shuddh Desi Romance.’
In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul – each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays that date back to antiquity.
I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming.
I still don’t understand why the tag of ‘action hero’ follows me. My films have all these elements – romance, action and comedy. None of the fight sequences of my character is an act of randomness. There’s a reason to action in my films.
I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
After about the age of 13, I was a romance addict. Still am, though I read just about every other genre as well. The only thing I really shy away from is political thrillers.
You try to find the romance in the struggle, or at least that’s what you keep telling yourself. But you talk to successful actors, and the struggle always is what they miss the most.
The damaged wealthy hero is actually a hugely common trope in romance, and alpha heroes are very common in romance.
I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children’s literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance – I read it all. Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.
I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why ‘Romeo and Juliet’ came to such a pass.
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
‘Superman/Wonder Woman,’ people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn’t emotionally deep. Who knows?
I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for ‘Modern Romance.’ I love that movie.
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry’s decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
Perhaps it’s because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.
I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
I do like a little romance… just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven’t got that.
I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
I totally believe in romance and love and all that.
It is stupid to think the audience is a bunch of fools who can be manipulated by long titles and NRI romances.
There are millions of people who think that romance isn’t real writing. But the only person who can make you real, make your books real, is you.
Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There’s almost no overlap.
Obscure as still remains the origin of that ‘genre’ of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Romance means making yourself vulnerable.
Hip hop is the strongest form of protest there is, and it doesn’t always have to be a violent protest. It can be romantic, also. When you listen to Kanye West’s ‘Street Lights’ for example, there’s romance, there’s pain – you feel the essence. I get the same thing from Drake and 2 Chainz.
When I joined the band, I hadn’t been introduced to a lot of these bands on the scene – no emo bands or punk bands. The only band I knew was My Chemical Romance.
Romance on the screen happens even with people who do not have off-screen chemistry. To bring that out from them is my job.
You can’t make an action movie without action, and so, you can’t make a romance movie without romance.
My sexuality is not black and white. I’m a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I’ve had perfectly pleasant romances with women, but they weren’t sustainable. My passion wasn’t there. I would always be looking at guys.
There’s a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
We’re always up for a bit of romance on ice.
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
How do you stay married 47 years? You are probably apart 20 of them. You get fired, move to another job. She would raise the kids and come six months later. Just start all over again. New romance.
Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.
It’s true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write ‘And they lived happily ever after’ before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.
I am not doting and am not romantic. I can have spurts of romance but am not consistently romantic.
I encourage interoffice romance.
Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
I want to bring more lawv and romance into the society.
I always hear about romance and love and relationships, and we’re so scared to talk about the negatives, about when it doesn’t work out.
Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don’t exist.
I am very proud of my role in ‘Singularity.’ It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very emotional and challenging role.
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
I love movies, of course. ‘Terminator 3’ and ‘Bad Boys II’ – lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies – I’ll go to those, but not ‘las de amor.’ Not romance. It’s not that I don’t like love, but on the screen it bores me.
Bromance is a steady investment of years and the guys know each other through and through. On the other hand, romance is something that requires more investment in a shorter span of time.
I’ve always seen ‘Y’ as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, ‘It’s not literature unless is ends badly,’ and I really don’t like that. There’s enough misery and bad things happening in the world.
