Alexander Payne Quotes
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.
Quotes to Explore
-
I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
-
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
-
I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
-
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
-
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
-
I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
-
I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
-
Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
-
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
-
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
-
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
-
My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
-
I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
-
In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
-
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
-
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
-
I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
-
I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
-
Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.
-
I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
-
There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.
-
There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
-
What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.
-
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.
