I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction obviously but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

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.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art music food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans they talk about all three - wine food and art - as a way of enhancing life.

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

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.

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way ' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.

I'm a journeyman actor and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

Deep down I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.