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I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'
Jason Alexander -
You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
Jason Alexander
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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.
Jason Alexander -
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
Jason Alexander -
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.
Jason Alexander -
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.'
Jason Alexander -
If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.
Jason Alexander -
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.
Jason Alexander
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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
Jason Alexander -
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.
Jason Alexander -
Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
Jason Alexander -
Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
Jason Alexander -
The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
Jason Alexander -
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.
Jason Alexander
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Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.
Jason Alexander -
I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
Jason Alexander -
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.
Jason Alexander -
Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.
Jason Alexander -
I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
Jason Alexander -
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
Jason Alexander
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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.
Jason Alexander -
I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
Jason Alexander -
Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.
Jason Alexander -
You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
Jason Alexander