Jason Alexander Quotes
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I am hard-core middle class.
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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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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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You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
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I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
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I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
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But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
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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.
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I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
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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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I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I still don't know much about directing a movie.
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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.
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Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
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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.
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I think with challenge comes a little more fun.
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I love smart comedy.
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Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
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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.
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Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
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Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.