Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

I read all the books for 'Twilight.'

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've never had that experience.

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

... imagination robs us in great measure of reality...

Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.

Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.

I was never a 'Mills and Boon' kind of a person.

I thought we were one of the normal Hollywood families.

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

In our culture, many of us idealize love. We see it as some lofty cure-all for all of life's problems. Our movies and our stories and our history all celebrate it as life's ultimate goal, the final solution for all of our pain and struggle. And because we idealize love, we overestimate it. As a result, our relationships pay a price.

When your dreams are close to coming true, it does not feel real at first.

Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex.

I love young adult fantasies. While I say that, I have not seen all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies. But I've read all of the books, and I love them. I love them because I enjoy being transported to a different world and having my imagination challenged. That's a huge part of what we do as actors. We have to imagine ourselves in a different world. And when you are in a young adult fantasy, it challenges you in the best way.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.

Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral, so I knew she was going to bring that to the book.