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!'

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "Fans of the sitcom Friends may be surprised by David Schwimmer in Kissing a Fool. He played a hopeless-romantic paleontologist who works at a museum and later becomes a professor at a university. Critics dismissed The Pallbearer as a poor imitation of the 1967 film The Graduate.

A. The following year he made his Off-Broadway directorial debut in the 2008 production Fault Lines. For much of the late-1980s he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling unemployed actor.