Jason Alexander Quotes
You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Picture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 men Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.
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I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.
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My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
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I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.
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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.
