Jason Alexander Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
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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 think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
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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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We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
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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 have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
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I still don't know much about directing a movie.
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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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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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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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Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
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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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I think with challenge comes a little more fun.
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Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.
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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.