Quotes

I'm not really bald. I shave my head to keep in character with George.

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

But I didn'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.

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.

But one set 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.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

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.

[To Larry David, after writing him out of the episode 'The Pen'] If you ever write me out again, do it permanently.

[from Twitter] Ma, if u read this, I'm not the Jason Alexander accused of kiddie porn. Nor did I wed Britney Spears. There's a few JA's. I'm bald& ur son.

[talking about his real life parents] Remarkably, they looked a lot like my Seinfeld parents-Frank and Estelle Costanza. The difference was Frank never expressed much affection for George, but my dad adored me, and I knew it every day of my life.

When Estelle Harris was cast to play George's mom on Seinfeld, I couldn't believe it. I turned to Larry, who had met my mom, and said, 'You cast my mother!'