Top 33 David Walton Quotes

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

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

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

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

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

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’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 love Jim and Pam at ‘The Office.’

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 actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

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

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.

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

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.

I definitely had a wild phase.

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.

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.

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.

I think people always respond to real moments.

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

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

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.

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

I am not a man in decent shape.

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

Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren’t true.

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.

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.

My wife likes the hockey smell because it’s the smell of a warrior.

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?’