Quotes from Dan Fogler

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.

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

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

'Mars Needs Moms' was motion capture, where you walk into a space that's essentially a black box with cameras everywhere. It was so technical. You have these mandibles with cameras on your face and a helmet, and you have to hit certain marks. You couldn't shoot this stuff without the green-screen aspect.

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.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

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 a very physical actor.

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 had 'Star Wars' figures and G.I. Joes and Transformers and all the posters.

I have a large pallette of tastes.

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

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.

I love getting crazy and sweaty and wild.

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

I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

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

When I was a kid, I remember thinking, 'When we reach the year 2000, everyone will have jetpacks, and it'll be like 'The Jetsons,' and we'll fly everywhere!'

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.

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

I've always felt like if I was going to be born any other time that it would be during the '60s or definitely during Woodstock.

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.

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.