Quotes About 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.

My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very glamorous. When he first met my mum, he swept her off into this big, social world.

'A Walk to Remember' was a huge movie for me. I thought Mandy Moore was the coolest thing that ever happened. And Shane West - man, did I have a crush on him.

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.

I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

A romance novel is more than just a story in which two people fall in love. It's a very specific form of genre fiction. Not every story with a horse and a ranch in it is a Western; not every story with a murder in it is a mystery; and not every book that includes a love story can be classified as a romance novel.

The romance that can never really gel because of the powers that be... that's a great conflict.

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.

My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun!

I'm a lot of fun on a date.

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

I don't date. The thought of that is so yuck.

I don't date celebrities.

I think it might be nice to date someone not in the business.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life.