People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.
— David Walton
Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.
If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.
Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.
The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.
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.
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 had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.
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?'
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.
It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.
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.
I definitely had a wild phase.
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.
Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.
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.
I like to think everyone is pretty weird but they don't show it.
It's just nice to be employed.
In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.
My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.
I love Boston, and at some point, my plan is to have a home back there.
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.
At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.
Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
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.
There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.
Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.
I always try to be cautiously optimistic.
I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.
Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.
To be perfectly honest, I've gotten attention from gay men for a long time.
It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.
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'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 kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.
I think people always respond to real moments.
I am not a man in decent shape.
I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.
I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.
I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.
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.
If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.
With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.
I've always felt like I've been in good shows.
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 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 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.
Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.
Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.
From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.
