David Walton
If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.
Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.
My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.
My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.
I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.
That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.
I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.
It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling.
I love Jim and Pam at 'The Office.'
My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.
I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.
Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.
I love tennis. I've played it my whole life. Loved it since the age of three. I had an injury, so from the age of 13 to 24 I didn't play much. Then when I moved out to L.A., there were so many tennis courts that I rekindled the love.
The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.
Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.
My first series, I wouldn't even know where to get a clip of it. It was called 'Cracking Up.' It was on 'FOX' in 2004.
I'm not jaded yet. I'm still at the point where, if someone comes up to me with great energy, I'm happy to meet them.
I like to think everyone is pretty weird but they don't show it.
From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.
Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.
I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months.
It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.
Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.
Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.
To be perfectly honest, I've gotten attention from gay men for a long time.
I love being around cool, fun guys, so I've always enjoyed talking to gay men. Maybe it's because I'm an inherent flirt, but it just feels very natural.
I have straight married friends that other friends think are gay, and I have gay friends who don't throw that vibe at all. I know there's a full range out there, but I feel that gay men who aren't flamboyant are underrepresented on-screen.
Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.
I definitely had a wild phase.
I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.
I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.
I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.
There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.
I always try to be cautiously optimistic.
It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.
I've always felt like I've been in good shows.
Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.
Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jason always puts a lot of heart into what he does. He has a way of touching your emotional core in a life-affirming way. And he's a great show runner.
With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.
There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.
Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'
If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.
The first season of a show is kind of like an extended pilot. You're only really on the map if it goes a second season.
I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.
In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.
Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'
I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.
At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.