David Walton Quotes & Sayings

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me. — David Walton

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

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. — David Walton

I think people always respond to real moments. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy. — David Walton

People tend to romanticise consciousness, as if it's something spiritual. It's just a word we use to describe complexity. — David Walton

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

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever. — David Walton

Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true. — David Walton

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

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic. — David Walton

I always try to be cautiously optimistic. — David Walton

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character. — David Walton

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

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

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

A person is not the same as a toaster. — David Walton

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

I definitely would not need to insure my calves. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career. — David Walton

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter. — David Walton

A lot of people talk to kids like they're idiots. When I'm telling my two-year-old that you don't throw a dish on the floor, I explain it as if they're a 25-year-old that hasn't quite figured it out yet. — David Walton

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

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

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. — David Walton

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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

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

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

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could. — David Walton

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?' — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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

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. — David Walton

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

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. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

I love Jim and Pam at 'The Office.' — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

It's just nice to be employed. — David Walton

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say. — David Walton

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

I've always felt like I've been in good shows. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

The truth is, everyone is confused by quantum physics. — David Walton

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

It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe. — David Walton

When a character does something appalling but you still want to root for them, I find that the most exciting challenge to play, if you can pull it off. You're not supposed to like it, but you can't help it. — David Walton

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

You're here. You're real. Embrace that person you were, and make sure you have reason to like the person you're becoming. The past you can't change. The future is what matters. — David Walton

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

My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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

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. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

He should call it Oronzi's Law: Any sufficiently-advanced intelligence will be indistinguishable from insanity. — David Walton

I am not a man in decent shape. — David Walton

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

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

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen. — David Walton

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.' — David Walton

I wasn't sure how I felt about there being another me sharing space in the universe. Would I even like myself? — David Walton

I love Boston, and at some point, my plan is to have a home back there. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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. — David Walton

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