Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander
Jay Scott Greenspan, known by his stage name, Jason Alexander, is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth23 September 1959
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
people
Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
performance
You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
capitalize charges comic money second
Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage, do you want to be in film, do you want to be a comic actor? Do you just want to make it for the money and capitalize on your look and do commercials and soaps?'
goes minutes people
Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.
heart israel my-heart
Israel is near and dear to my heart
new-york way west
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
chinese shrimp torah
It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.
As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop.
son rocks laughing
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.
school kids son
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.
directors sense-of-humor made
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
pain character motivated
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
heartbeat easy joyous
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.