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Jason Alexander
American
Actor
Born:
Sep 23
,
1959
About
Me
People
Think
Work
You
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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
People
Bad People
Think
Extra
Rule
Characters
Bad
Some
Something
General
General Rule
Layers
Doing
Them
Necessarily
Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?
Jason Alexander
Time
You
World
Believe
Out
Came
I think with challenge comes a little more fun.
Jason Alexander
Challenge
Think
More
Little
Fun
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
Jason Alexander
Work
Incredibly
Would
Easy
Joyous
Because
Heartbeat
Any
Again
Them
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
Jason Alexander
Funny
Character
Pain
More
Him
Makes
Always
Motivated
Than
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
Funny
Me
Director
Sense Of Humor
Better
Humor
Made
Sense
Worse
Okay
About
Only
Supposed
The Only Thing
Thing
I still don't know much about directing a movie.
Jason Alexander
About
Directing
Know
Still
Movie
Much
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
Jason Alexander
Funny
You
Lose
Down
Seinfeld
Pounds
He
Up
Goes
Interesting
Your
Theory
Jerry
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
Me
You
Think
Corporate
Corporations
Gigs
Come
Sing
Said
Being
Want
Anything
Tunes
Asked
Show
Show Tunes
Kept
Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.
Jason Alexander
Best
People
Comedy
Recognise
Themselves
Works
I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.
Jason Alexander
Me
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Guess
Defined
Reagan
Era
Want
Screw
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
Jason Alexander
Service
Community
Think
Insane
Rather
Seinfeld
Banality
Than
Community Service
Shows
Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
Jason Alexander
Wonderful
Made
Seinfeld
Stepped
Wonderful Things
Happened
Jerry
Things
If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.
Jason Alexander
Would
Directing
More
Could
Jump
Move
If I Could
Much
Really
Career
I love smart comedy.
Jason Alexander
Love
Smart
Comedy
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
Me
You
Somebody
Says
Find
More
Motivate
Than
Get
Going
Often
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
Jason Alexander
You
Matter
Kind
Find
Tends
Disappear
Sing
Singers
Accent
Any
Where
Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
Jason Alexander
Fire
More
Directors
Than
Get
Cylinders
Many
Actor
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.
Jason Alexander
Best
Training
Criticism
Think
See
About
Directing
Could
Through
Never
Had
Instead
Blinders
Because
Material
Role
Anything
Really
Should
Working
Acting
Teachers
Even
Actor
The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
Jason Alexander
Pilot
Made
Seinfeld
Dropped
Supposed
Go
Series
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
You
People
Before
Claim
Absolutely
Day-To-Day
Also
Make
Lot
Get
Arts
Really
Things
Need
I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
Jason Alexander
Politics
Few
Think
Gifts
Real
Very
Personal
Bring
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
Jason Alexander
Needs
Every
Poker
Like
Most
Box
Fisherman
Stories
Story
Uninteresting
Player
One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.
Jason Alexander
You
People
Exactly
See
Poker
How
Pro
Being
Play
Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.
Jason Alexander
About
Poker
Supposed
Glory
Passionate
Just
Hobby
Bring
In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.
Jason Alexander
Best
Destination
Matter
Citizen
Angeles
Point
New
How
Los
Los Angeles
Provocative
York
May
New York
Theater
Successful
Event
Second-Class
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