Alexander Payne Quotes

In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

Alexander Payne

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• There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Children
  • Mind
  • Force

• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

  

  J Mascis
  • Together
  • Guitar
  • Some

• Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Movie

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Player
  • Name
  • Makes

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Career
  • Goal
  • Win

• Too clever is dumb.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dumb
  • Clever
  • Too

• Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Power

• Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Money
  • Sympathy

• Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • Family
  • Myself

• I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Age

• Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Success
  • Lying
  • Conditions

• There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Nothing
  • Orange
  • Butter

• I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Arbitrary
  • Physicality
  • Wince

• The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Life
  • Mountain
  • Alive

• In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Death
  • Image

• In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

  

  Alexander Payne