Gemma Jones Quotes

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

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

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

A first love always occupies a special place.

I'm a horrible romantic!

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.