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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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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People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.
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I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.
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The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.
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I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
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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.
