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Quote by Alexander Payne
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead p

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, youre a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which youre trying to get a film financed. – Alexander Payne

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I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? Theres some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. – Alexander Payne

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I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular. – Alexander Payne

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I thought that somehow your life would be much different when youre famous… and its not. You just buy more stuff. – Nicole Sullivan

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Being rich and famous isnt all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me. – Annni-Frid Lyngstad

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The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen together in 2004 and weve stayed in touch. – Adam Garcia

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The famous saying God is love, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the otherness and terror of God. – Charles Williams

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