David Schwimmer Quotes

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

I'm just a stage actress. I'm very comfortable onstage.

My first real job as a director was working with Robbie Baitz on his play 'Three Hotels.' It was an incredible collaboration.

Acting is my job.

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

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and Laura Charmichael, directed by Jamie Lloyd. It's one of my favourite plays by one of my favourite playwrights.

Theatre worked as a big boost and improved my film career.

Acting is something that I've always wanted to do and been interested in.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

Acting is the way I make my living.

I've learned almost everything I know about acting from my dad.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.