David Schwimmer Quotes
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With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'
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I'm very goal oriented.
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Older actors can still play young, but it's harder for young actors to be able to play that age range.
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I was a geek in high school.
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My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.
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London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.
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I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.
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Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.
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My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
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I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.
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I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
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It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.
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Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.
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'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job.
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I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
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I had a mustache when I was 13.
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And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.
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I'm always looking for a good role.
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There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'
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The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.
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There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
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I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.
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I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide.
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You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.