It's funny I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes Charlie Parker Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Once I got married and had kids I moved away from romantic roles because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

If I had no family my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.