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Jason Alexander  Quotes
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...

—Jason Alexander

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Rock
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I was a shy and insecure kid and didn’t know quite where I fit.

—Jason Alexander

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It’s a question of finding the right thing, if I’m going to be an actor… if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited...

—Jason Alexander

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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

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AskedSaidSing
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Poker is just a hobby I’m passionate about. It’s not supposed to bring glory.

—Jason Alexander

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BringPassionateSupposed
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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.

—Jason Alexander

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Loved
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Actors go, ‘I just want to act.’ And I say to them, ‘You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage,...

—Jason Alexander

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ActStop
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I still don’t know much about directing a movie.

—Jason Alexander

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I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

—Jason Alexander

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Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and...

—Jason Alexander

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I know what it’s like to be in the closet! I know what it’s like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them… so, I’m coming...

—Jason Alexander

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Coming
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The greatest part of the job was… that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

—Jason Alexander

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‘Broadway Bound’ is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

—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...

—Jason Alexander

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I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

—Jason Alexander

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AgainEasy
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I’m actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

—Jason Alexander

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MeetReluctant
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One of the reasons I love acting is because I’m so interested in other people’s lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I’ve become a bit of a ‘person...

—Jason Alexander

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Often
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The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

—Jason Alexander

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Sense
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The necessity for ‘professionals’ in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

—Jason Alexander

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ConstantlyIndustry
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I’m always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

—Jason Alexander

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CharacterPain
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But I didn’t know much about directing a movie.

—Jason Alexander

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DirectingMovie
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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.

—Jason Alexander

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Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

—Jason Alexander

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ComedyThemselves
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I’m not a director to make an action or horror film. That’s not for me.

—Jason Alexander

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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...

—Jason Alexander

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NameStupidValue
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Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don’t necessarily think they are bad.

—Jason Alexander

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CharactersGeneralRule
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The pilot of ‘Seinfeld’ was made and dropped. ‘Seinfeld’ was not supposed to go to series.

—Jason Alexander

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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son’s school overcome a learning disability.

—Jason Alexander

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KidSon
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody’s pressing comedy albums anymore.

—Jason Alexander

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ComedyLivesNobody
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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

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DaysMerelyTelevision
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I am hard-core middle class.

—Jason Alexander

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ClassMiddle
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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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The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don’t need them to know about you – you need them to know about your work.

—Jason Alexander

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I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

—Jason Alexander

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CannotStruggling
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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.

—Jason Alexander

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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.

—Jason Alexander

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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

—Jason Alexander

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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.’

—Jason Alexander

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I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

—Jason Alexander

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ChallengeFun
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Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.

—Jason Alexander

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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....

—Jason Alexander

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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.

—Jason Alexander

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Well, let’s put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

—Jason Alexander

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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.

—Jason Alexander

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InspiredYork
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Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

—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

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I’m a singer and performer in a hybrid show that’s standup, music and audience participation.

—Jason Alexander

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Isn’t it time you came out and told the world what you believe?

—Jason Alexander

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Came
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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...

—Jason Alexander

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AudienceOnceRole
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Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don’t. That’s fine.

—Jason Alexander

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