Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.
I remember when I got a part on 'Seinfeld' it was like an out of body experience, I was so excited.
It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.
I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.
Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.
I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.
In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but then after him it was people acting like Seinfeld and making observations that we felt like we'd kind of heard before, and then you're seeing Seinfeldian comedy in commercials. Suddenly everything is observational funniness.
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.