I've always felt like if I was going to be born any other time that it would be during the '60s or definitely during Woodstock.
— Dan Fogler
I had 'Star Wars' figures and G.I. Joes and Transformers and all the posters.
'Mars Needs Moms' was motion capture, where you walk into a space that's essentially a black box with cameras everywhere. It was so technical. You have these mandibles with cameras on your face and a helmet, and you have to hit certain marks. You couldn't shoot this stuff without the green-screen aspect.
When I was a kid, I remember thinking, 'When we reach the year 2000, everyone will have jetpacks, and it'll be like 'The Jetsons,' and we'll fly everywhere!'
I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men.' Or play Peter Dinklage's cousin on 'Game of Thrones.' That would be fun.
I've always had a thing where, if I start something, it's gotta get finished. No matter how long it takes, I've gotta see it to fruition.
I must have seen the 'Twlight Zone' movie, like, a thousand times.
I grew up in Brooklyn.
You know what's been interesting about my career? It's been this slow rise with long plateaus.
When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.
I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
I love getting crazy and sweaty and wild.
I saw the 'Balls of Fury' script, and I was skeptical at first.
I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.
I love movies; many an afternoon skipping school were spent in a funky, run-down Brooklyn movie theater.
I have a large pallette of tastes.
Sometimes it takes time to become part of the collective unconscious, just like 'Fanboys' did. Going into that movie, I said to myself that if you were a 'Star Wars' fan, you were going to love that movie. It's an homage to everything science-fiction, but especially 'Star Wars.'
I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'
In college, I learned that my favorite parts were the sad clown parts. Those are the ones I love because you get to do everything. You get to be funny, make them laugh one minute, and make them cry the next minute.
In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
I'm a very physical actor.
I got to work with Ron Perlman. I've been a fan of his forever, since he was Vincent on 'Beauty and the Beast.'
It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.
I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life.
I think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that.
When I was a kid, I saw 'Heavy Metal' the movie, and my mind was blown. I loved the idea that you could have all these different stories in different styles that are linked together.
I've been working very hard off-off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway and doing little films and really sweating my butt off in tiny little black boxes.
I've had time to taste fame, but I definitely lean towards being the kind of actor where I'm happy to be able to walk down the street and go to the corner store and not get hassled.
If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
