Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?
I can't go anywhere without being recognized. I'm.
I don't tolerate any kind of dishonesty. I bring a lot to the table with my relationships, so I really expect the same.
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.
I had a mustache when I was 13.
I have a lot of girlfriends whom I've never been involved with. Those kinds of lines get drawn pretty early on.
I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.
I was a geek in high school.
I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.
If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.
It's a job - someone's gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.
It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.
My favorite thing about my family is that my sister and I will go over to our parents' house on the weekend and play canasta.
The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.
There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'
There are certain sacrifices that you make, and you feel like the only compensation you have as an actor is financial.
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
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!'
You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
He was once a rollerskating waiter as he was putting himself through college.
While starring in Friends, David filmed 10 public service announcements for NBC's The More You Know. His topics were rape, date rape, drugs, diversity, teacher appreciation, stay in school, nutrition, smoking, parental involvement, internet safety, and judging.
He admits to having conflict with writers and cast members of Friends.
David hates cats. Mainly because he's very allergic to them.
He is an executive producer for Easy Winners.
He has an older sister named Ellie, who was born in 1965.
He is the voice of Melman in the Madagascar franchise.
He was born in New York and was raised in Los Angeles.
He was the only Friends cast member that didn't smoke. However, Courtney Cox quit smoking around the sixth season of the show.
David claims he was only allowed to bond with Marcel (Ross' monkey on Friends) on-screen. He claims he was never allowed to play with the creature off-screen.
David was suggested to play Holden in Chasing Amy, but turned it down. The part went to Ben Affleck.
David's character in Friends, has had his name in the episode title 24 times. That's more then any other cast mate's character.
By the end of the series, David was one year older than his Friends character.
David starred in many AT&T phone commercials.
He directed The Jungle, a play, which won him six Joseph Jefferson Awards (the Chicago's version of the Tony Awards).
He is a distant cousin of Benji Schwimmer, first season winner of So You Think You Can Dance.
He once worked as a waiter at Ed Debevics, a restaurant in Chicago.
He has been mentioned and insulted on both Family Guy and The Simpsons.
David was the tallest of any of the Friends cast.
On the television show "Friends", David Schwimmer was Jewish. In real life, David Schwimmer is Jewish.
In 2004, David Schwimmer was voted man of the year by 'Glamour' magazine readers.
Although David Schwimmer never followed in his family's footsteps by becoming an actual attorney, he played one on television in a 1994 sitcom starring Henry Winkler titled 'Monty'.
In the spring of 2006, David Schwimmer played the part of military lawyer Lt. Barney Greenwald in a play titled "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" at The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway.
David Schwimmer is the director of a London-based film due out in 2007 titled "Run Fatboy, Run".
David Schwimmer was raised in a family full of attorneys (grandfather, parents and sister).
David presented the award for Best Comedy at the 2006 British National Television Awards, which went to Matt Lucas and David Walliams, for Little Britain.
David previously dated French actress Emmanuelle Perret.
David previously dated Nicole Miller.
David has said that when Friends ended, he would like to become a teacher.
David originally turned down the role of 'Ross Gellar' on Friends.
David previously dated Australian singer/actress Natalie Imbruglia.
The Friends producers admit that the characters could never afford the rents on the apartments they live in on the show.
Both of David's parents, Arlene Colman-Schwimmer and Authur Schwimmer, had small parts in the TV-movie Since You've Been Gone (1998).
When David first met Friends co-star Matt LeBlanc he was skeptical. Matt was wearing leather jeans and David thought he was "Joe Cool Stud" and hated him on sight but later they became friends.
David had to defend his name after tabloids claimed he's the reason why Friends ended. David had appeared on TV shows the entire week of October 5th, 2002, insisting that was not the case and that he too was open to suggestions to keep the show on the air.
David used to date actress Mili Avital, who he met on the set of Kissing a Fool (1998).
Before Friends (1994), David competed against his high school friend Jonathan Silverman and actor Jon Cryer for a role in the TV pilot for Couples. Jonathan won the role opposite Helen Slater, but ABC passed on the show. The producers later reconceived the show for singles and sold it to NBC as Friends (1994). David was the first actor to be cast.
David graduated from Northwestern University.
David turned a leading role in Men In Black, which went to Will Smith.
David was nominated for a SAG Award for "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series" in 2000 for Friends.
David won a TV Guide Award for "Editor's Choice" in 2000.
David received Emmy Nominations for "Outstanding Supporting Actor" and "Outstanding Lead Actor" (2002).
David has directed Friends episodes such as:The One With Phoebe's Birthday DinnerThe One With The Red SweaterThe One With The StripperThe One Where Joey Dates RachelThe One With Ross's Library BookThe One With All The CandyThe One With The Truth About LondonThe One On The Last NightThe One With Rachel's Assistant
David is 6' 2" tall.
After graduating from college, David founded a theatre company called Looking Glass.
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