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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.'
Jason Alexander -
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.
Jason Alexander
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Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
Jason Alexander -
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
Jason Alexander -
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
Jason Alexander -
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
Jason Alexander -
I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.
Jason Alexander -
I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
Jason Alexander
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I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.
Jason Alexander -
In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.
Jason Alexander -
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.
Jason Alexander -
I still don't know much about directing a movie.
Jason Alexander -
Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
Jason Alexander -
I am hard-core middle class.
Jason Alexander
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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.
Jason Alexander -
But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
Jason Alexander -
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
Jason Alexander -
Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
Jason Alexander -
I love smart comedy.
Jason Alexander -
The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.
Jason Alexander
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When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.
Jason Alexander -
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
Jason Alexander -
There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am excited to work with.
Jason Alexander -
I think with challenge comes a little more fun.
Jason Alexander