DAVID WALTON

I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

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.

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

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

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.

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

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 definitely had a wild phase.

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

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

I think people always respond to real moments.

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

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

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

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

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.

Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.

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

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

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.