Quotes by Jason Alexander

Jason Alexander

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.

Acting

Guilt

Selfish

As George Costanza would say, when they’re applauding, stop.

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.

Boston

College

Towns

But I didn’t know much about directing a movie.

Knows

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.

Heart

Queens

Uncles

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I’m the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

Divorce

Kids

Parent

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.

Teacher

Thinking

Training

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

Kids

School

Son

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.

Meaningful

Personality

Vantage Point

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

Challenges

Fun

Thinking

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Baby

Beauty

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Chinese

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Community

Despair

Directors

Divorce

Easy

Embrace

Finals

Fun

Garage

Girl

Guilt

Heart

Heartbeat

Insane

Israel

Joyous

Kids

Knows

Laughing

Live Simply

Looks

Love

Made

May

Meaningful

Motivated

My Heart

New York

Numbers

Pain

Parent

Pay

People

Personality

Play

Queens

Rocks

School

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Quotes by Jason Alexander

Jason Alexander

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.

As George Costanza would say, when they’re applauding, stop.

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.

But I didn’t know much about directing a movie.

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.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I’m the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

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.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

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