David Schwimmer Quotes

If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

If you want to make an impact, you need to invest your time every bit as much as your money. And you need to stay involved for the long run. If you can't look at a five-year horizon, you shouldn't get involved.

If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.

'Spooks' was unique. It took up such a lot of your life - I think we did 10 episodes for the first few seasons. That's six months of your life.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life.

I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

That was the only trepidation I had about 'Will & Grace.' It had nothing to do with the sexuality of the character. It was more, 'This could be the next 7 to 10 years of my life.'

Films are not a part-time job. They take months to make and require long-time commitment; so, you can't do a half-hearted job.

I feel like I don't have much of a preference. With TV, it's just a longer process, so you need to be more sure that you really want to be involved in it for a longer time than you would be with film.

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.

I've never told anybody this, so I don't know if maybe you shouldn't print it, but I've made plans. I'm only going to continue doing this for another 25 years.

If you put in the time, you’ll see the rewards.

Unluckily actors don't get much free time, they are demanded every time and everywhere.

I try to focus on the next week and the next game every time, focus on what I'm doing right now and just to continue to improve every single day. If I do that, I should have a good future.

Seventeen years is a long time to be playing this game. It's two careers for a lot of people.

I would even commit seven years to a film for Rajamouli.

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

I think everybody's ideal is to have a wonderful career with one franchise, like Kobe and Tim Duncan.

Snowboarding is a huge part of my life, but I also feel like it's important to have a plan B or a back-up plan for after my career because I can't snowboard for my whole life competitively.

A TV series is a long commitment.

Being on a weekly series, you see these people so much, and you have these genuine interactions with them where if you're away doing a film, it's a little different because there's - these definite end dates to everything.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.