Jason Alexander Quotes


Jason Alexander

I`m not really bald. I shave my head to keep in character with George.

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.

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.

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.

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

I still don`t know much about directing a movie.

But I didn`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.

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.

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.

And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, you have to start explaining.

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






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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
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Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series (1994–2009)
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