David Schwimmer Quotes

When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

I love being part of this industry, but at the end of the day, it is a job, and I like to have a life beyond films.

I love what I do a lot, but it's my work.

After college I'd take up a job and I'd experience what it is to take up a job, rather than starting out on my own. I said let me just work for six months so that I know myself a little better.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

I like the work that I get to do.

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

I really got to see my dad enjoy every day that he was working. Everybody should be able to have this much fun when they go to work.

When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

I've always worked.

Some jobs you do, they're just jobs. Others are life experiences.

Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.

I'm just glad to be able to work.