Jason Alexander Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
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One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
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I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
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Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'
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At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.
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You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
