Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

I have put gay dating on the map.

Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.

A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.

Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

I'm representing the single women out there, dating around, trying to find the right guy who respects you and appreciates you. Maybe I'll settle down somewhere. Gotta keep looking.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.

It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

I'm personally a hopeless romantic. I always have been.

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and how often women want to hear 'I love you.' For the most part, it's on the guy. He's not withholding it intentionally. It's just that we kind of miss the point sometimes, that even in the most nonchalant way, telling the person how you feel is important.

It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready.

I'm still obsessed with the beach whenever I'm home; when I'm on the beach, it feels like home to me.

Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.