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

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" 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. "

" 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 despair. "

" I still don't know much about directing a movie. "

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

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Greatest

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

" Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened. "

" 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 out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope. "

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

" The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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New York

New

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

" The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. "

" 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. "

" But I didn't know much about directing a movie. "

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

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