David Schwimmer famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Challenges #Trying #Growing
I had a mustache when I was 13.
-- David Schwimmer

#Mustache
If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.
-- David Schwimmer

#Thinking #Want
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.
-- David Schwimmer

#Karma #Feel Good #Benefits
And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.
-- David Schwimmer

#Successful #Firsts #Being Successful
I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
-- David Schwimmer

#Loss #Thinking #Privacy
If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.
-- David Schwimmer

#Believe #Enough #Should
And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.
-- David Schwimmer

#Years #Six #Shows
Ive always been pretty energetic.
-- David Schwimmer

#Energetic
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.
-- David Schwimmer

#Parent #Age #Pressure
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.
-- David Schwimmer

#Running #Zoos #Years
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.
-- David Schwimmer

#Nice #Thinking #Challenges
I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.
-- David Schwimmer

#Half #Other Half #Analyzing
A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.
-- David Schwimmer

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

#Falling In Love #Tv Shows #America
I was a geek in high school.
-- David Schwimmer

#School #High School #Geek
I'm very goal oriented.
-- David Schwimmer

#Goal #Goal Oriented
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.
-- David Schwimmer

#Thinking #Directors #Watching Tv
Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?
-- David Schwimmer

#Mirrors #Car #Guy
If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.
-- David Schwimmer

#Dark #Two #Sick
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.
-- David Schwimmer

#Character #Thinking #Perception
I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.
-- David Schwimmer

#Loyal #Fierce #Cherish
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!
-- David Schwimmer

#Thinking #Years #People
You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
-- David Schwimmer

#Team #Persons
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.
-- David Schwimmer

#Thinking #Make You Think #Degrees

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