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
love girl play
The actress (Heidi Swedberg) is this wonderful girl, and ... I love her! i couldn't figure out how to play off of her. Her instincts for doing a scene - where the comedy was - and mine were always misfiring.
bad characters people rule
Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.
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.
uncles queens heart
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.
beauty finals made
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
knows
But I didn't know much about directing a movie.