Janet McTeer Quotes

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man!

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

People really are looking for this perfect sort of dream person, but it's hard to go out every night or make the effort to meet people in your hometown, if you haven't already met them all. Online there's this infinite possibility of meeting this person who, no matter where they live, you're meant to be with.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

I am such a diehard romantic. I guess a part of me thinks I am Juliet.

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.