Alexander Payne
Related DANA CARVEY TREY PARKER It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough fo... ANTJE TRAUE TADANOBU ASANO MAGGIE Q NEVE CAMPBELL Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some peopl... MICHAEL PALIN SHIA LABEOUF TAYLOR SWIFT You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. Yo... CHERYL LADD Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU AL PACINO GWEN STEFANI Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good. LAURA LINNEY If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting rol... STEPHEN REA It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity. WILLIE GEIST JOHN CUSACK Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you&... AUDREY TAUTOU ADRIANA LIMA LIL UZI VERT MARIANNE WILLIAMSON KEVIN BACON It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. D. B. SWEENEY KIM KARDASHIAN Get your work in, do what you need do, and get back up top. I'm a little bit behind the curve as... RYAN HOWARD USAIN BOLT You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fan... RACHEL WARD I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then ... STEVE BURNS You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to st... KARL MALONE ED HELMS When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks. HANK AZARIA If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's ra... HUGH GRANT JASON DAY ALEXANDRA MARIA LARA When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the... CASS ELLIOT They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if y... CHARLOTTE CHURCH JA RULE CHRISTOPHER MORLEY RUSSELL PETERS If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities ... ALAINA HUFFMAN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA EDWARD HIRSCH If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you'... ROBERT CRUMB DEYTH BANGER When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the f... RAFAEL DOS ANJOS JILLIAN HERVEY When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happene... PADDY CONSIDINE ADAM CAROLLA I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential a... B. D. WONG Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and... JACK HUSTON If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at ... BERNARD SUMNER Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you w... ASGHAR FARHADI MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a w... STEPHEN DORFF ERIC STOLTZ You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you ... DOUGRAY SCOTT ADAM BRODY YAEL NAIM Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedes... MORGAN BRITTANY STEPHEN SONDHEIM Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've f... IRRFAN KHAN BARBARA WALTERS SARAH HYLAND JONAH HILL TAMMARA WEBBER TOM WAITS FRANCINE RIVERS RICHARD STALLMAN SHANIA TWAIN ALEC BALDWIN WHIT STILLMAN ALAN RICKMAN PATRICK FUGIT KERI RUSSELL Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do,... HARLEY QUINN SMITH The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had th... HAYDEN PANETTIERE KATEE SACKHOFF I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it'... BELLA HADID MARIA SHRIVER You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough ... CHRIS PRATT GEORGE CARLIN ELLEN BARKIN It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous. EMILY ROBISON TRISHA YEARWOOD FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS DAVID TENNANT DREW BARRYMORE My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#... TERRY ZWIGOFF FAMKE JANSSEN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE BRIAN GRAZER J.K. ROWLING When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You re... GABRIELLA WILDE ROSE MCIVER
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Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho... ALEXANDER PAYNE The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic co... ALEXANDER PAYNE I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times... ALEXANDER PAYNE Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I fee... ALEXANDER PAYNE I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make ver... ALEXANDER PAYNE Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel li... ALEXANDER PAYNE But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for qui... ALEXANDER PAYNE [asked which wine he would drink to celebrate] We're having some tequila. ALEXANDER PAYNE To be fair-not that I really care about being fair to anyone, ever-but to be fair, I'm sure that sam... ALEXANDER PAYNE That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too ... ALEXANDER PAYNE You would own the negative after seven years. The company would actually own the film. It's kind of ... ALEXANDER PAYNE You just never know when you're living in a golden age. ALEXANDER PAYNE A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get ti... ALEXANDER PAYNE I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. ALEXANDER PAYNE Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to... ALEXANDER PAYNE In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not... ALEXANDER PAYNE 'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, th... ALEXANDER PAYNE You just never know when you're living in a golden age. ALEXANDER PAYNE I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watc... ALEXANDER PAYNE There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!... ALEXANDER PAYNE The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything. ALEXANDER PAYNE Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ALEXANDER PAYNE There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and th... ALEXANDER PAYNE When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your ho... ALEXANDER PAYNE If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things ... ALEXANDER PAYNE Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills. ALEXANDER PAYNE It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Al... ALEXANDER PAYNE They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year peri... ALEXANDER PAYNE Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that... ALEXANDER PAYNE The best cinema is about ethics. ALEXANDER PAYNE I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly. ALEXANDER PAYNE What is filmmaking but groping in the dark? ALEXANDER PAYNE I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for ... ALEXANDER PAYNE When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul. ALEXANDER PAYNE I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make... ALEXANDER PAYNE I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor. ALEXANDER PAYNE If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with. ALEXANDER PAYNE My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. ALEXANDER PAYNE You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration an... ALEXANDER PAYNE LIAM PAYNE PAYNE STEWART LIAM PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE CYNTHIA PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE PAYNE STEWART LIAM PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE The sense I got from the staff was, we would all like to be able to go and help but can't,' so they ... BETH PAYNE One of the most emotional moments for me was when I was talking to a woman in a town that practicall... BETH PAYNE I would give them things that they could use, ... While I'm doing that, I would try to talk to them ... BETH PAYNE I don't need documentation. I know him as a person and Ricky would never do anything to hurt the dep... BETH PAYNE We havent broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), thats not what she wanted. We opted not to... BETH PAYNE It's so easy for us to have this immediate rush of we want to help right now,' and then time passes,... BETH PAYNE We haven’t broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), thatÃ... BETH PAYNE The Red Cross needs a lot of volunteers whenever there's a disaster, and it has a partnership with m... BETH PAYNE We are very keen to support GME as shows such as this give us a rare chance to meet potential new bu... ANDY PAYNE We have another very enthusiastic crowd this year and we hope to raise well in excess of last year's... ANDY PAYNE It's tough when you're working for minimum wage and have four kids. ANDY PAYNE It gives us more options to do more. This new way gives families a bigger chance on the front end. I... ANDY PAYNE The most athletic team there is in this conference tournament. In order for Texas College to win, we... ANDRE PAYNE I'm so excited because every year we've gotten to a different stage. We've feel short with teams tha... ANDRE PAYNE It is different with it being a rivalry. We feel we have the better team. We have something not only... ANDRE PAYNE I feel like we've been so close every year. I feel that this is our year to do it. ANDRE PAYNE Czyz is the best defensive player we've got and he made it hard for (Beaty) to get the basketball. M... ANDRE PAYNE They were in foul trouble and had to make a few substitutions. I felt their backups couldn't handle ... ANDRE PAYNE We've got to go in there and turn that pressure up from the start. ANDRE PAYNE Our point guard Czyz Bennett just took it up on himself and made great decisions. We needed that. As... ANDRE PAYNE Since I've been here, there's always a comeback. Nobody has ever just blown each other out to where ... ANDRE PAYNE Our guys started playing hard and that was the big difference. We came out aggressive, then missed a... ANDRE PAYNE PAYNE STEWART ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simpl... PIPER PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE It's been a very active day today. We're asking people to remember there's a burn ban still in effec... ANNA PAYNE We had quite a few fires start today but with the winds not being as strong as they were, local fire... ANNA PAYNE They seem to be doing much better today, but they're not calling it contained. ANNA PAYNE We want to make sure that despite the scattered showers, we want people to remember that the fire da... ANNA PAYNE It's been a very active day today. ANNA PAYNE I lost my brakes. My brakes went loose to the car, and I decided to pull into the bus terminal to pr... ANTHONY PAYNE We've seen clinically significant improvements. ANTHONY PAYNE We’ve seen clinically significant improvements, ANTHONY PAYNE If future blood tests indicate the cells are indeed churning out the enzyme, this entire endeavor wi... ANTHONY PAYNE If future blood tests indicate the cells are indeed churning out the enzyme, this entire endeavor wi... ANTHONY PAYNE The 40,000 spectators will see spectacle of fast-running, exciting sevens rugby. ALLAN PAYNE We are happy with the IRB series in that it guarantees us that we will get the big teams. But now we... ALLAN PAYNE There is a feeling that this is too long, and possibly eight tournaments are a bit too much. While t... ALLAN PAYNE We will have discussions with everyone concerned about the future shape of the IRB series. ALLAN PAYNE I'm pretty sure there will be a number of other countries making a bid for 2009. And Hong Kong is li... ALLAN PAYNE The International Rugby Board will put a tender out for bids later this year. While it is up to the ... ALLAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE LIAM PAYNE Als naturalisten en materialisten zijn wij een essentiële categorie kwijt geraak, namelijk die van ... LEANNE PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE We are not sitting back and waiting for the town to preserve our neighborhood, but we need your help... BRIAN PAYNE Just before the election, the then federal government announced a $1.5 billion aid package for fores... BRIAN PAYNE I do swimming, but that's only two seasons out of the year. BRIAN PAYNE I knew it, but I've just never really seen an image of it before. I drink a lot of it. BRIAN PAYNE Larry approached it without ego. He was very service-oriented, and it seems like it worked. BRIAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE I let the seniors decide what we needed to do to win tonight. They're tired of hearing me talk. BOB PAYNE I'm sure it'll draw a crowd. We already played them on their courts, so it's their turn to come here... BOB PAYNE I can tell when Daniel is going to make it. His hands are on the ball. BOB PAYNE We played a tough team tonight. Hopefully it will help get us ready for league. It was a tough tourn... BOB PAYNE The whole idea of this tournament is to get ready for league, starting next week. We played well and... BOB PAYNE PAYNE STEWART ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE PAYNE STEWART Endings are like a string of Christmas lights. As time passes, one by one great things eventually di... ANGELA PAYNE We need to raise over $250,000 this year if we are going to be able to help needy families in a subs... CHARLES PAYNE LIAM PAYNE I don't think this raises any red flags. It's an intriguing thing but it happens to everybody. Every... CHARLES PAYNE I've seen so many accidents occur, because people aren't paying attention to what's going on in fron... HOWARD PAYNE This is not the first time this has happened. HOWARD PAYNE You have to let us know when you are doing these kinds of things. HOWARD PAYNE Being courteous is definitely something people need to keep in mind. HOWARD PAYNE We need an event as a catalyst for a full-fledged rally on the upside, CHARLES PAYNE Those were the old antiquated British forms, and they wanted a more clean American form, ... It real... ROGER PAYNE Students want to have these services in one place. Student feedback really was the driving force beh... CHRISTOPHER PAYNE Disappointment can go away faster than the panic. CHARLES PAYNE LIAM PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE (They) just don't want anything fake. They're just being snobby. CHRIS PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE There will never again be an official salad cream of the Olympic Games. MICHAEL PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE I think that whole idea of the calendar starting in September is really eroding. THOMAS PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE When we got to a certain point of weakness there were buyers and that's been one of the characterist... CHARLES PAYNE The bears came out this week and didn't spook everyone off. When the market was too weak, there were... CHARLES PAYNE I think most folks know what they want to buy. Certain stocks are starting to creep higher and you w... CHARLES PAYNE [A safe Independence Day] would be a good psychological boost, but we need some fundamental news as ... CHARLES PAYNE The key word coming into the week was fear and that fear didn't turn to panic so the key word going ... CHARLES PAYNE The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just... DANIEL PAYNE [The Liberty Alliance validates the Passport model, which] gives the industry the choice and control... CHRIS PAYNE When it hit me man I was at the hospital in the emergency room in the bathroom when I heard…when I... DANIEL PAYNE We're ready to take it nationwide. Really, that's unlimited. It's scary how quick it could grow. JACKIE PAYNE Your future is so bright you gotta wear shades... ERIC PAYNE It could be really important, especially on the heels of the PPI (producer price index), CHARLES PAYNE We haven’t broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), that’s not what she wanted. We opted ... BETH PAYNE The only kinds of men's facial hair I like are hipster beards and mustaches: vegan men that like to ... ANGELA PAYNE Some of these CEOs are saying we're getting some visibility, but no one is pounding the table. CHARLES PAYNE A lot of [financial companies] report this week. This might be some speculation that we'll see some ... CHARLES PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE CYNTHIA PAYNE We scored zero points off the bench. It's impossible to win a game like that when all five of your s... ANDRE PAYNE Weve seen clinically significant improvements, ANTHONY PAYNE We know a lot more about the ice sheets than we did before. We know change is happening and that it ... ANTHONY PAYNE We know sea levels will rise. We need to know by how much and why. ANTHONY PAYNE (Rite Aid has) new management. They've made some mistakes in the past both in terms of communication... CHARLES PAYNE It took some good pitching by Brittany to get out of that jam. She stepped up her game and showed me... SARAH PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE This week has been a big victory for stocks. We weathered the continuous stream of bad news a lot be... CHARLES PAYNE ROMAN PAYNE As far as I know, the use of the word 'slave' has never been even proposed by anyone as offensive. ROGER PAYNE We havent broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), thats not what she wanted. We opted no... BETH PAYNE After the Cisco announcement there was a swarm of activity. Investors came in ready to buy. A lot of... CHARLES PAYNE Little Nelson was tied in a plastic bag with two other dogs and left in front of the animal control ... CHRISTINE PAYNE There was an attempt to seduce some of these fence-sitters off the sidelines and it just didn't work... CHARLES PAYNE
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a litt... 
If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans... 
If you're famous, you're not free. 
Sometimes you're famous before you're good. 
You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If... 
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, t... 
People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when ... 
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversa... 
As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life. 
If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're use... 
You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous. 
If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone ... 
Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world. 
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you'... 
There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character. 
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be... 
I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have... 
I think everyone expects if you're in the lead, or if you're a favourite to win, you will wi... 
When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you... 
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room livi... 
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in orde... 
You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you... 
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. ... 
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the serious... 
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
I think anytime with your mom, whether she's famous or not, you're watching what she's d... 
If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their ... 
I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... 
When you're in a movie, they treat you like you're four years old and give you whatever you ... 
I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain ag... 
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious lik... 
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sou... 
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ... 
I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but i... 
Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you ge... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respe... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You'... 
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous... 
In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it ha... 
I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you'r... 
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Ac... 
One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B... 
I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because y... 
It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the... 
Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ... 
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a ... 
There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, th... 
If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll f... 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're tryin... 
It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lea... 
Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and g... 
I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if yo... 
Do you mean to tell me’, he growled a the Dursleys, ‘that this boy- this boy! - knows nothin’ ... 
The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you're able to start knowing exactly wher... 
I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me... 
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might... 
I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12,... 
Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,
I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern po... 
When a Wanderess has been caged, 
I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea. 
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag an... 
I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan... 
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people li... 