Quotes About Romance

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

This kind of devotion doesn't exist anymore, that you would spend half your life in love with somebody and you never even see that person. One or two meetings is enough.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

I'm looking for extraordinary. I'm looking for a man who I see and it makes me melt.

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

I remember being mesmerized by 'Love in the Afternoon,' with Gary Cooper.

I'm one of those people who loves love. I'm fascinated by it: what it does to us, how it messes us up.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

The great thing about dancing is it's a way to get close to a beautiful woman you have never met.

Nora Ephron's 'When Harry Met Sally' is a classic.

I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.

I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny.

I was madly in love with Michael Jackson.

I thought that I was going to be Mrs. Michael Jackson, but I was ready at 20 and 21 to get married, and he was not even close to getting married or having a girlfriend at that time, but yes, we dated. We dated for a while.

I had lovely boyfriends. For your first three boyfriends to be Mick Jagger, Todd Rundgren, and David Bowie, I don't think anyone would have a problem with that.

'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school.

I seem to fancy middle-aged men, weirdly.

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.