David Walton Quotes

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.

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

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.

I guess if you're smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It's like being old."
"Or rich," Alex said.

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

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.

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.

To be perfectly honest, I've gotten attention from gay men for a long time.

I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.

It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.

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 graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.

That's the concept of superposition," Jean said. "Being in more than one place, or more than one state, at the same time.

I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

I love Jim and Pam at 'The Office.'

I like to think everyone is pretty weird but they don't show it.

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

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 think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.

I definitely would not need to insure my calves.

When you're kissing on camera, it becomes an issue visually. It looks like a skinny dinosaur creature is trying to kiss someone. It doesn't look good. It does not look like the classic romance kisses. If an actress is 5'3 and I don't bend down to kiss her, she would probably be kissing my lower sternum.

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

The universe is a quantum computer. Since you can simulate any set of particle interactions with a quantum computer made of the same number of particles, then there's no practical difference between the universe and a quantum computer simulating the universe.

The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.

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.

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.

Someday you'll understand. You'll have your own children, and they'll mean more to you than the world. A wife has to defend her children, even against her own husband. Not that I expect you to be easily cowed. But sometimes, despite all you say and do, your husband won't be dissuaded from folly. When that happens, as a mother you have to close ranks. Your first responsibility is to your children. To salvage what you can. Even if they hate you for it.

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

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've always felt like I've been in good shows.

A person is not the same as a toaster.

I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.

It's just nice to be employed.

The truth is, everyone is confused by quantum physics.

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 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.

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.

You are so hot," I said.
"How hot?" she asked, toying with the hem of the shirt.
"Ionising radiation hot," I said. "Neutral pion decay hot."
Elena snorted. "You're such a romantic," she said.

If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.

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.

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

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.

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.

Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

I think people always respond to real moments.