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" 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
Bounce
Like
House
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" If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there. "
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Play
Quit
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" I love Boston, and at some point, my plan is to have a home back there. "
David Walton
Love
Back
Boston
" I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars. "
David Walton
Seven
Five
Away
" 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
Experience
People
Success
" It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea. "
David Walton
Hard
Make
Pilot
" 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
Happy
Great
Someone
" 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
Filter
Feeling
Always
" 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
Feel
Think
Men
" 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
Work
Conflict
Me
" I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic. "
David Walton
Play
Words
Character
" If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen. "
David Walton
Start
Yourself
Work
" I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat. "
David Walton
Rat
Degree
Psychology
" I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say. "
David Walton
Life
Talent
Experience
" 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
Society
Captain
Cry
" I think people always respond to real moments. "
David Walton
Real
Think
Always
" 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
Fun
Best
Life
" I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could. "
David Walton
Avoided
Responsibility
Long
" 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
Sports
Short
Fall
" Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true. "
David Walton
Those
Characters
True
" I definitely had a wild phase. "
David Walton
Had
Phase
Wild
" I always try to be cautiously optimistic. "
David Walton
Try
Optimistic
Always
" Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever. "
David Walton
Write
Things
Jokes
" At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter. "
David Walton
Seriously
Winter
Point
" I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far. "
David Walton
Kind
Living
Wind
" I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart. "
David Walton
Up
Think
Heart
" It's just nice to be employed. "
David Walton
Employed
Nice
Just
" I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to. "
David Walton
No Idea
How
Knew
" I am not a man in decent shape. "
David Walton
Man
Decent
Shape
" 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
Show
Season
Pilot
" 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
Heart
You
Think