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Jason Alexander Quotes

Most stand-up comics relish performing ‘in one’ – solo. They like the autonomy.

– 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

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

– Jason Alexander

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

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.

– Jason Alexander

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

– Jason Alexander

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

– Jason Alexander

I have always wanted to play Sweeney in ‘Sweeney Todd.’

– Jason Alexander

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

– Jason Alexander

One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

– Jason Alexander

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

– Jason Alexander

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

– Jason Alexander

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

– Jason Alexander

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

– Jason Alexander

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

– Jason Alexander

There is no community service in ‘Seinfeld.’ But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

– Jason Alexander

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy – it’s addictive.

– 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

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

– Jason Alexander

You need to find the size of performance that’s appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.

– Jason Alexander

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the ‘I want it all for me, and screw everybody else’ era.

– Jason Alexander

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

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

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

– Jason Alexander

What is it about Iowa? I’m the shortest guy in the state.

– 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

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

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

– Jason Alexander

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.

– Jason Alexander

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, ‘Oh, maybe if I’m lucky I’ll make it to Broadway by the time I’m 40!’

– Jason Alexander

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