Yeardley Smith Quotes

Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

For a country that makes such a fuss about love on the 14th of February, America has a funny way of showing it on the other 364 days of the year.

What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment.

The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.

When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl knows that real life isn't always like these movies, but as a child, I just really loved the story of 'Cinderella.' I found it to be so romantic and just a beautiful movie to watch.

I am a huge romantic.

I am a huge romantic at heart.

Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.

I'm a real romantic, big time.

I'm an incurable romantic. But I'm not an adrenaline junkie.

I'm a real romantic.

I am a very romantic person, and I love 'love' - however cheesy that sounds!

There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.

I am very romantic at heart in real life.

I'm not soppy-romantic. I don't buy Valentine's cards or any of that cheesy crap.

I am a romantic at heart.