David Schwimmer Quotes

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David Schwimmer

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 2, 1966

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

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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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As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

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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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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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When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.

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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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A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

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I'm always looking for a good role.

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I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater.

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I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.

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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.

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I've always been pretty energetic.

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I'm very goal oriented.

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

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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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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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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.

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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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