David Schwimmer Quotes

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.

Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

I see a ton of theatre whenever I'm not working to stay inspired. I love feeling like I'm a part of the theatre community and following the work of actors and writers I admire. I'm a big reader, too.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.

I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.

I'd like to work at the Royal Court Theatre, please.

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.

Acting and directing are two separate disciplines that rarely mix.