Grand Gesture Quotes

I'm like Jay Gatsby. I like to throw the party and then stand back, looking gorgeous. Stand back and watch it.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

I've flown halfway around the world to kiss a girl. I jumped on a plane and flew to Australia.

'Chasing Fire' is about fighting for something that's already over. It's the beginning of the end. It's desperation. It's grand. But it's hopeless.

The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.

I just want to do something big if I do anything at all.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin' out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear.

Ach, I've never been one for big declarations or releasing statements.

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?

I am a one-trick pony. If you tell most people to draw a picture of a tree, they'd draw 35 branches and 10,000 leaves. I will draw you a tree with four branches and three leaves, and I'll spend the rest of the week drawing inside of each leaf. In terms of the grand gesture, I reserve that maximum turbo blast energy for what I do as an artist, and I sing and dance for dinner.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Well the only reason to go back, for me and I think for anyone involved would be if we could do something truly spectacular. We've been talking about it for a couple years and there's always been this idea, a big idea, in the back of my head that we've been talking about.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.

For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.

The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

Pablo gave me gifts any billionaire gives his girlfriend: a crocodile wallet, a trip. I imagine that Trump gave Melania wallets.