1. - Matthew Modine, Bye Bye Love, 1995. While his great TV rival, Tim Allen, was prepping film plans at Disney, Seinfeld and manager George Shapiro said there was no time for the Gary David Goldberg project.  The comic's month off was better spent back on the stand-up trail. “That's all I can do. That’s what a comedian is. Our thing is not disappearing into other characters. It’s being this character that you are.”

2. - Sam Rockwell, Heist, 2001. “I never get offered things that I could really bring something special to.” Not even this David Mamet heist, hailed by Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger  Ebert as  “the kind of caper movie that was made before special effects replaced wit, construction and intelligence. It is about its characters.”  Danny DeVito had the most Seinfeldian line: “Everybody needs money! That’s why they call it money!”