David Schwimmer Quotes

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

If I'm going to do something, I really put everything into it and I want it to mean something to me.

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.

If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

I think a huge amount of it is because of the Internet. Every single thing in the world is accessible with a few clicks. Almost every child, by the age of 13, has seen pornography. That's clearly different. It used to be really hard or really humiliating, as a 13-year-old, to access pornography. If you wanted to take a look at a Playboy, it was really challenging. Today, it's a joke.

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.

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.

My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those.

Ive always been pretty energetic.

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.