Donal Logue Quotes
No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.
Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.
We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.
I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.
I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.
Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.
To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."
There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.
I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.
I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.
I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.
It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.
Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.
I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child.
I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.
You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.
It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.
I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.
I'd have to say my favorite thing about working on the show, and something that might be intriguing to other people, is that it's just such an amazingly welcoming environment to work in.
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.
With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.
I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.