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Jason Alexander
American
Actor
About the author
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
#Character
#Pain
#Funny
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.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
#Time
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
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.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
#Sense
#Humor
#Funny
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
#Work
#Years
#Job
#Pleasure
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
#Work
I still don't know much about directing a movie.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
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.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
#Heart
#Grandparents
But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
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.
Jason Alexander,
American
Actor
#Life
#Play
#Manners
#Actors