Jason Alexander Quotes
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Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
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Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
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I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'
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Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.
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I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.
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If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.
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The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
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Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.
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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
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Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
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I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
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Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.
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I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'
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Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.
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What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
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I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
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We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
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Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'