Dan Fogler Quotes

"It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic."

"If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it."

"My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at."

"After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store."

"I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period."

"Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous."

"I love theater. I grew up doing theater."

"I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh."

"I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know."

"When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits."

"I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver."

"I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her."

"My brain doesn't like to be quiet."

"When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider."

"In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie."

"You know what's been interesting about my career? It's been this slow rise with long plateaus."

"I've had time to taste fame, but I definitely lean towards being the kind of actor where I'm happy to be able to walk down the street and go to the corner store and not get hassled."

"In college, I learned that my favorite parts were the sad clown parts. Those are the ones I love because you get to do everything. You get to be funny, make them laugh one minute, and make them cry the next minute."

"I grew up in Brooklyn."

"I've been working very hard off-off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway and doing little films and really sweating my butt off in tiny little black boxes."

"I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'"

"I must have seen the 'Twlight Zone' movie, like, a thousand times."

"When I was a kid, I saw 'Heavy Metal' the movie, and my mind was blown. I loved the idea that you could have all these different stories in different styles that are linked together."

"Sometimes it takes time to become part of the collective unconscious, just like 'Fanboys' did. Going into that movie, I said to myself that if you were a 'Star Wars' fan, you were going to love that movie. It's an homage to everything science-fiction, but especially 'Star Wars.'"

"I've always had a thing where, if I start something, it's gotta get finished. No matter how long it takes, I've gotta see it to fruition."

"I think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that."

"I have a large pallette of tastes."

"I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men.' Or play Peter Dinklage's cousin on 'Game of Thrones.' That would be fun."

"I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life."

"I love movies; many an afternoon skipping school were spent in a funky, run-down Brooklyn movie theater."