Jason Alexander Quotes

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

Jason Alexander

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• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Children
  • Want
  • Girl

• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Me

• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Want
  • Value

• My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Mother
  • Dad
  • Personality

• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Man
  • Perfect

• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Done
  • California
  • Anywhere

• You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • You
  • Pain
  • Right

• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Players

• As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
  • Best

• It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • People
  • Dress
  • Observation

• A man in the house is worth two in the street.

  

  Mae West
  • House
  • Man
  • Street

• It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Long
  • Live
  • Job

• I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Live
  • Have
  • France

• My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Family
  • Joke
  • Recognized

• When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• I told the Commonwealth Commissioners I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars... I told them I was come into the covenant of peace which was before wars and strife were.

  

  George Fox
  • Life
  • Power
  • Peace

• Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

  

  John Oliver
  • Up
  • Done
  • Comedy

• When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Comedy

• You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.

  

  Jon Pardi

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

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Comedy