Jason Alexander Quotes

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

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

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop.

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

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

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.

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

The actress (Heidi Swedberg) is this wonderful girl, and ... I love her! i couldn't figure out how to play off of her. Her instincts for doing a scene - where the comedy was - and mine were always misfiring.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never 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.

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.

Israel is near and dear to my heart

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

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.

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.

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting because the best actors see the material they’re working on through blinders. They can’t see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

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

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

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

Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.

People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.