Top 81 Quotes by Jason Alexander

I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'

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

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

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.

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.

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.

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

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