Wine like food is so emotional. If you think about it so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

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.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic Italian-Irish family in Philly.

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

I approached everything my job my family my romances with intensity.

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.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love and when I love I love hard.