Alexander Payne Quotes

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

Alexander Payne

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Think
  • Insurance

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Artist

• Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Space
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Boy

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Military
  • Period

• I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Best
  • Sports
  • Training

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Real
  • Go
  • Fast

• The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Done
  • Job

• When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Me
  • Child

• David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Been
  • Netflix

• What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Space

• Mum worked as a secretary for Orson Welles for what sounded like a very miserable year. Her brother was the actor Jeremy Brett, who became famous for playing Sherlock Holmes. He was an absolutely lovely man. Very exciting and glamorous, he'd always make me feel amazing and full of confidence, like I'd picked the right thing to do in life.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Confidence

• Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Up
  • Humanity

• If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • American
  • Democracy

• Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Hours

• A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • American
  • Comedy
  • Tired