The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

When the day's work is over, it's over.

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.

I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors.

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.

The past has to inform the present.

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him.

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

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

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.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.