Romanticize Quotes

I`m not enamored by fame. I don`t covet it, the way someone who`s anonymous wants it, and then their life changes. This has always been my life. You don`t romanticize it when you`ve seen the underbelly of it, when you`ve seen rejection, the games, the way self-esteem is challenged and threatened. It`s an industry that`s predicated on knocking people down. Only the strong survive. (2007)

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.