Top 92 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Alexander
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
I am hard-core middle class.
I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'
I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.
I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.
I think with challenge comes a little more fun.
Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.
I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.
Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.
I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.
Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.
I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'
When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.
I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.
The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.
But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.
I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.
There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am excited to work with.
Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.
Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
I still don't know much about directing a movie.
Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.
I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.
Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.
I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
I love smart comedy.
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