Brian Schweitzer's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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!'

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

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

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.

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

'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.

I can't go anywhere without being recognized. I'm.

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

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 like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

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

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

I was a geek in high school.

I'm always looking for a good role.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

I'm very goal oriented.

I've always been pretty energetic.

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

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

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

I like having curves - I'm proud of them!

I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.

I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.

I've always danced. I've always been around it.

I've had every hair style imaginable.

If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.

Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.

Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.