Jason Schwartzman Quotes


"But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Planning, Reason)

"I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: People, Being, Connection, Investigation, Loneliness)

"Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Party, Thinking, Worry)

"I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Love, Idea, Character, Ability)

"I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Thought, People, Actor, Chance, End)

"Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Martin, Writer)

"In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Life, People, Accidents, Day, Will)

"Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Love, Actor, Company, Play, Want)

"It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Funny, People, Eye, Public)

"Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?"
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Logic)

"Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Hate, Man)

"Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Direction)

"There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Computers, People, Communication)

"I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: People, Friends, Old, Restaurants, Talk)

"I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Time, Habit, Restaurants)

"Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Life, People, Eyes, Learning, Open, Trying, World)

"At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Hate, Mail, Now)

"I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Dating, People, First, Talk)

"After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Feeling)

"But I'd have to say Young Frankenstein, which I can watch forever."
- Jason Schwartzman
"As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Driving, Listening, Loneliness, Lonely, Respect)

"I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band."
- Jason Schwartzman
"I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Choice, Right, Thinking)

"I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Funny, People, Martin, Moon, Play)

"Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Dating, Moments)

"I have never stopped playing music."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Music)

"I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Work, Effort)