David Schwimmer

“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.”

“I had a mustache when I was 13.”

“I'm always looking for a good role.”

“I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.”

“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.”

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

“I've always been pretty energetic.”

“The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.”

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

“I'm very goal oriented.”

“Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?”

“'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.”

“And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.”

“I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.”

“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.”