Jason Alexander Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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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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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 met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.
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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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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 was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
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I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
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Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
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The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
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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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I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.
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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.
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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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Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
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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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But I didn't know much about directing a movie.