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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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When youre a houseguest and you leave, its nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, its nice to have made a positive contribution. – Alexander Payne

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positive
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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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Alexander Payne
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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. – Alexander Payne

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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful – unless one was striving for mediocrity. – William Hurt

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I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous. – Kim Weston

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In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game. – Bobby Thomson

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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesnt change a thing. – Macy Gray

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