David Walton Quotes

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

My first performance was as one of the orphans in 'Oliver!'

When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.

A career in film didn't seem like something I could attain. Whereas I grew up next to New York City, and I spent my life going into New York City seeing plays, and I was a theater actor in school. Acting on the stage felt really natural to me, and I liked it, and I wasn't terrible at it.

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me up and she had been mentioning, prior to that, this community production of 'Godspell', a couple towns over. I was reluctant, at first, and she bribed me with some great dinner that was in that town, neighboring the theater.

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

Hartford had the Mark Twain Masquers, which was fantastic. They had been in business I don't know how many years. They knew how to build sets and sell tickets and put on a play. My day started at night. When I left the office, that's when my day began.

I started out producing theatre in New York.

Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

I'm an actor of the theater.

When 'Rent: Live' was announced, I bugged everybody. The creatives, Fox, the producers, my team - I have to be Mark Cohen. It almost got to a laughable point for me. I was like, 'I have to be Mark Cohen.'

When you're trying out on Broadway, it's very hectic, and you're making changes night after night. There's a lot of pressures from producers to make some changes, and you're writing for actors who are in it - and sometimes the limitations of actors who are in it.