But with Tinseltown keeping him busier and busier, it looks like Rosanna and Patricia's little brother won't have much time for what he really wants to do--find the right woman.
"I'm past the stage where I'm sleeping around for no reason," Arquette says over a cigarette, before winging off to the Sundance Film Festival, where his latest film, Dream with the Fishes, played to packed houses. "I'm a hopeless romantic. I want to fall in love and be with a woman forever. It's pretty hopeless."
Hopeless? What about his dalliance with Scream-er Courteney Cox? "Well, I am hopelessly romantic about her, but nothing ever happened." Okay, then what about Ellen Barkin, his costar in Wild Bill? "That's gossip," he says. "You do a movie with someone, and you hang out with 'em, and people say you're going out." (There was also a "mind-boggling" kiss with Elliot Gould in johns, but Arquette says there's nothing between them, either.)
What's next for the lovelorn actor? He's currently filming RPM ("a European action movie"); after that, he'll play a priest in Showtime's The Hunger Anthology. And negotiations are underway for Heart of Hearts, starring Minnie Driver.
Hmmm, may be time to crank up that rumor mill again.