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" 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

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Challenge

Character

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House

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

" There are a lot of techniques for developing a character. "

" I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 am not a man in decent shape. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always felt like I've been in good shows. "

David Walton

Always

Shows

" It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea. "

" 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. "

David Walton

Think

Heart

" Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever. "

" 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. "