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" You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team. "

David Schwimmer

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" I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those. "

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" To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way. "

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" I had a mustache when I was 13. "

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" When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic. "

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" It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60. "

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" If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy. "

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" Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you? "

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" I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy. "

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" 'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job. "

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" With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!' "

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" If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is. "

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" I was a geek in high school. "

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" I'm always looking for a good role. "

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" I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable. "

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" 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. "

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" My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal. "

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" I've made a good amount of money. I'm very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I'm ready to maybe go back to school and change careers. "

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" I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America. "

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" A lot of a movie is locations, frankly. "

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" I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater. "

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" I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success. "

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" London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy. "

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" My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going. "

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" I've always been pretty energetic. "

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" I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years. "

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" Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception. "

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" If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it. "

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" I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide. "

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" Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway. "

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