David Schwimmer Quotes
Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
-
I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
-
We shred every day.
-
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
-
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
-
I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
-
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
-
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
-
It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
-
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
-
I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
-
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
-
I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
-
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
-
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
-
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
-
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
-
You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
-
Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.
-
When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
-
That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.
-
I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
-
He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
-
Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.
