David Walton quotes:

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

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.

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.

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

I love Jim and Pam at 'The Office.'

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

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.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

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.

I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.

I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

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.

It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.

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?'

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

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.

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

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

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

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 always try to be cautiously optimistic.

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

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

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

My wife likes the hockey smell because its the smell of a warrior.

A lot of people talk to kids like they're idiots. When I'm telling my two-year-old that you don't throw a dish on the floor, I explain it as if they're a 25-year-old that hasn't quite figured it out yet.

Chemistrys 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.

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

When you're kissing on camera, it becomes an issue visually. It looks like a skinny dinosaur creature is trying to kiss someone. It doesn't look good. It does not look like the classic romance kisses. If an actress is 5'3" and I don't bend down to kiss her, she would probably be kissing my lower sternum.

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

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 definitely would not need to insure my calves.

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.