A Quote by Jim Gaffigan

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

Jim Gaffigan

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Jim Gaffigan
American - Comedian
Born: July 7, 1966

One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

Juanita M. Kreps

I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

Zooey Deschanel

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Neil Sheehan

We all romanticize the people we adore.

John Green

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

Alexander McQueen

People tend to romanticize what they can't quite remember.

Ira Flatow

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

Kevin Smith

So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.

Rory Freedman

I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.

Chris Pine

In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

Judge Reinhold

I guess we romanticize the loser.

Clancy Martin

People romanticize struggle and obscurity, and I get that, but it's a very one-dimensional argument to say that people who have money are evil, and artists who are poor are virtuous.

Shepard Fairey

For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.