Quotes from Jason Alexander

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

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.

I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

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.

Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.

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.

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.

One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.

I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

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.

I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

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.

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.