Top 92 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Alexander - Page 2

Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.

Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage, do you want to be in film, do you want to be a comic actor? Do you just want to make it for the money and capitalize on your look and do commercials and soaps?'

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.

I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.

I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop.

Israel is near and dear to my heart

There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

The actress (Heidi Swedberg) is this wonderful girl, and ... I love her! i couldn't figure out how to play off of her. Her instincts for doing a scene - where the comedy was - and mine were always misfiring.

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

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.

Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.