Jason Alexander Quotes

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

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• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Always
  • Poverty
  • Horror

• I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Think
  • Today
  • Fighting

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Now
  • Embrace

• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Want
  • Bust

• One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mother

• Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

  

  Paracelsus
  • May
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams

• My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Me
  • Nice
  • More

• For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Food

• Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Day
  • Rest

• The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Health
  • Fitness

• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Learning
  • Purpose
  • Curiosity

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • May
  • Happen
  • Flexibility

• It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Period
  • Fans
  • Blessing

• My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Love

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Achievement

• If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

  

  Carol Bartz

• In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

  

  Kelly Miller
  • Great

• I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Littles
  • Accepted
  • Outcast

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

  

  Ira Glass
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Pain