Jason Alexander Quotes

As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.

I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work with people that I can learn from - directors I think are so great.

In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.

I am very happy that I am getting to play such layered and demanding characters. I feel blessed that directors are trusting me with such roles.

An actor's journey is never fulfilled. We always look for greener pastures, better roles, better creativity. We all want to do good work.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me.

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

I can speak to actors in their terms. Knowing I was an actor, they relax. You can have the best shot in the world - but, at the center of it, you still need a good performance.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.