Jason Alexander Quotes
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The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.
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I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
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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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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 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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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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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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The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.
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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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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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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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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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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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I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
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I am hard-core middle class.
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The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
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But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
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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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If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.
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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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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 do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.
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Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.