David Schwimmer Quotes

When we were doing 'The Office,' there was an area backstage where they worked on hair and makeup, and I was sitting there waiting to get ready to go on, and one of the writers went, 'I want you to audition for 'Bad Teacher.'' I went, 'Okay!'

I am waiting for roles like the one in 'Yeh Hai Jalwa.'

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

There are many, many, actors with whom I'd like to share a stage or a set.

I do want to do more acting! I love it. It's so fun.

Honestly a role is a role - whichever industry it is in - TV, stage or films.

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

It was never my goal to be an actor.

I think of myself as an actor.

I'd love to do some new plays.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

I like actors - I used to be one.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I'd love to do a drama.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.