Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
— Jason Alexander
The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.
I think with challenge comes a little more fun.
I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.
I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'
I still don't know much about directing a movie.
You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.
Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.
I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
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.
I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'
I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.
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.
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.
Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.
I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.
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.
Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
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.
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.
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
