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
awards broadway growing jersey kid maybe teenage time tony watching
I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'
heavy
I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.
bring few gifts personal politics
I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
backstage best combined company fellows performing synergy
I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
quite
I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
family realm work
Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
seinfeld stepped
Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
funny jerry pounds seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
against ashes bob created crew insane measure purposely stolen
We purposely created Bob out of the ashes of George. I would be insane not to measure things against 'Seinfeld.' I've stolen as much of the 'Seinfeld' crew as I could to give me a hedge.
dan love reliable voices
Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
pilot supposed
The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
lack stopped stuck time
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.
constantly entertainment
The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.