Top 81 Quotes by Jason Alexander

You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

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

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.

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

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.

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.

I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.

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

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