109 Quotes by Jason Alexander

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"I think with challenge comes a little more fun."

"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."