Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. "
Jason Alexander
New York
New
Up
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Jason Alexander
Play
Show
Manners
" 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
Want
Me
Said
" Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory. "
Jason Alexander
Poker
Hobby
Glory
" The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. "
Jason Alexander
Necessity
Entertainment
Industry
" I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee. "
Jason Alexander
Still
Wear
Bald
" 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
Live
Focus
Best
" I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability. "
Jason Alexander
Learning
Disability
I Can
" We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season. "
Jason Alexander
Season
Made
Final
" 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. "
Jason Alexander
Group
Know
Thought
" 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
Me
Work
Son
" 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
Early
Kind
Mean
" Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.' "
Jason Alexander
Down
Up
You
" I still don't know much about directing a movie. "
Jason Alexander
Movie
Know
Much
" 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
Health
Doctor
Problems
" The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work. "
Jason Alexander
Greatest
Go
Pleasure
" I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy. "
Jason Alexander
Heartbeat
Work
Again
" There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it. "
Jason Alexander
Service
Think
Than
" Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe? "
Jason Alexander
World
Out
Came
" But I didn't know much about directing a movie. "
Jason Alexander
Much
Movie
Know
" 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. "
Jason Alexander
Create
Numbers
Life
" 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. "
Jason Alexander
Uncle
Aunt
Grandparents
" Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened. "
Jason Alexander
Jerry
Things
Wonderful
" I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny. "
Jason Alexander
Him
Pain
Always
" 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
Sense Of Humor
Funny
Me