Quotes About Connection

Most of the romance in my films has been inspired by my father.

New York is just such a perfect place for romance.

I love romance and talking about love, and I think it's one of the greatest things you can talk about.

'Dev' is a love story but isn't about romance. It is also about loving friends as well as family and loving every moment of life.

Romance is everything.

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

I try to be romantic.

I happen to be really a romantic.

I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.

In my entire life I've spent maybe three weeks with my dad under the same roof.

Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

I am very conscious of the fact I am in people's living rooms every day, and they feel like they know me.

So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.

You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.

Love is the root of everything. Whatever you do you must do with love so I also sing with love and perform with love for the love of my audience.

People don't want to just root for a team anymore. They want to root for something more.

Although it wasn't my era, Soul is the root of what I do.

Without having an emotional connection or some relatability to the characters, there's really nothing to root for, in some respect.

I want to stay rooted forever.

There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.