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" Cosmo: Are you more of a hopeless romantic or a realist like your Down With Love character? Ren\u00E9e: I&amp;#039;m an extremist on both ends. Is that possible? I am a hopeless romantic. I believe in love because I&amp;#039;ve experienced it. C: What does your inner realist say? R: I believe in love, but I&amp;#039;m not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania [the Romanian region where Cold Mountain filmed]. I make decisions based on what I have now, today. Because I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you&amp;#039;re going to miss out on all that stuff. And that&amp;#039;s what makes you special and makes your life rich. C: Sure but your love life seems pretty rich too. You&amp;#039;re becoming known for your celebrity beaus. R: Am I? That&amp;#039;s crazy to me. I&amp;#039;ve only dated one [Jim Carrey] fpr mpt even a year. And I was in England half that year. C: Supposedly, you were engaged to him. R: I know. The English papers wrote that I was propsed to in a West End restaurant with a ring, and they included the size and cost of the ring. But it was all made up. But it was all made up. I&amp;#039;d only been dating him for three months. As if I would consider marriage after only three months! C: So you&amp;#039;ve never been engaged? R; No. And I have a mythical relationship floating around right now\u2014that&amp;#039;s been floating around for a couple of years\u2014that somebody made up and it just snowballed and kept going. C: You mean George Clooney? R: I don&amp;#039;t talk about who [laughs]. I&amp;#039;m very good friends with a couple of celebrity men, and I see them a lot. But I haven&amp;#039;t dated anybody, and I haven&amp;#039;t had a boyfriend since that one [Carry]. C: Okay, so your single. Do you want to get married? R: I don&amp;#039;t require it. If I met that best friend that I&amp;#039;m in love with, then sure. But otherwise, no. I do sit back sometimes and wonder about it. My girlfriend [Down With Love co-star] Sarah Paulson and I were lauging one day because we couldn&amp;#039;t get over how gorgeous Ewan McGregor is. You just die when you see him. C: He&amp;#039;s married, right? R: Yes, and he has this beautiful, clever wife and the most beautiful children you&amp;#039;ve ever seen. They&amp;#039;re just to die for. And Sarah and I were like, &amp;quot;Wait a second! What&amp;#039;s wrong with us? If a guy is making a list of things he&amp;#039;s hoping for in a girl\u2014beautiful, professional, self-sufficient, smart, funny, interesting\u2014where are we on that list? C: Did you go on more dates before or after you became famous? R: Before. Because now no one asks. C: Why not? R: I don&amp;#039;t know why [laughs]. I don&amp;#039;t say, &amp;quot;Excuse me. I was wondering, has it crossed your mind to invite me to lunch? And if not, why not?&amp;quot; [More laughter] C: But you should have no problem picking up guys. R: I can&amp;#039;t do that\u2014go to a bar, meet a guy, get his phone number, and see what happens. It takes me a long time to get to know somebody, and I value friendship. I certainly don&amp;#039;t want 90 guys to have my number and come to my house and know me intimately and then move on. There has to be a true connection or something that I admire in that person. C: SO your memoirs won&amp;#039;t be full of casual sex stories? R: No, but I don&amp;#039;t judge people who do it. If you&amp;#039;re interest in that, then go for it. It&amp;#039;s nice that women have the prerogative to chose. But I&amp;#039;d like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. And then I find him attractive. C: What else attracts you? It&amp;#039;s always about heart and his ability to empathize. And he has to make me laugh, but in a smart way, not by putting himself on display or beingthe showy guy. What about looks? Sure, but you learn it doesn&amp;#039;t matter. It&amp;#039;s not a telltale. It&amp;#039;s like credentials: &amp;quot;Oh, he went to so-and-so school?&amp;#039; But that doesn&amp;#039;t mean he&amp;#039;s smart. Youre from Texas, where some men still open a woman&amp;#039;s car door for her. Do you find modern chivalry charming or condescending? R: Well, what are his intentions? I don&amp;#039;t want somebody to open the door for me because he&amp;#039;s trying to manipulate me. But I dated a guy once from the Carolinas. When I&amp;#039;d pull up, he&amp;#039;d automatically come out to help with groceries. That&amp;#039;s sweet, because you generally do need and appreciate help bringing in groceries. C: Speaking of old boyfriends, can you stay friends with an ex? R: Oh, completely. One of my best friends is an ex-boyfriend. And I don&amp;#039;t really think of him as an ex. It was just a process of getting to where we always needed to be. It&amp;#039;s peprfect. C: What traits in a guy would cause you to dump him? R: To be dismissive of my dog [Woofer, a collie-golden retriver mix]. If she has to be sent away from the table, well, then he can&amp;#039;t be across the table. C: Anything else? R: If he&amp;#039;s disrespectful of the waiter or the busyboy, because it clearly means that his kindness is conditional and he divvies it up when it servesr him to be nice. And I don&amp;#039;t need a guy who raises his fists for any reason, even to protect me. I need a guy who neutralizes the situation and takes us away from danger. C: Can I get your five best dating tips? R: Wait. I want to talk more about my relationships with celebrity men. Who else do they say I&amp;#039;m dating? C: One of the tabloids just linked you with Matthew Perry. R: I know Matthew, he&amp;#039;s really nice and handsome. I&amp;#039;m not dating him either. But that&amp;#039;s good. Let&amp;#039;s make my list really good! Do you go for rockstars? R: Yeah! Where have all the rock stars gone? They&amp;#039;re gone! No, they&amp;#039;re not. There&amp;#039;s The Strokes. And Paul McCartney. And Bruce Springsteen. Life is good. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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