Top 39 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Fogler

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Dan Fogler.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Dan Fogler

Daniel Kevin Fogler is an American actor, comedian and writer. He has appeared in films including Balls of Fury, Good Luck Chuck, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore and has done voice acting for Kung Fu Panda, Horton Hears a Who!, and Mars Needs Moms. He appeared on The Walking Dead as Luke.

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 love theater. I grew up doing theater.
I had 'Star Wars' figures and G.I. Joes and Transformers and all the posters. — © Dan Fogler
I had 'Star Wars' figures and G.I. Joes and Transformers and all the posters.
In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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.
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 love getting crazy and sweaty and wild.
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
I got to work with Ron Perlman. I've been a fan of his forever, since he was Vincent on 'Beauty and the Beast.'
'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.
You know what's been interesting about my career? It's been this slow rise with long plateaus.
I'm a very physical actor.
Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous. — © Dan Fogler
Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.
My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life.
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.
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 a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
I think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that.
After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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.'
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'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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.
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 have a large pallette of tastes. — © Dan Fogler
I have a large pallette of tastes.
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 grew up in Brooklyn.
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.
I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'
I saw the 'Balls of Fury' script, and I was skeptical at first.
I must have seen the 'Twlight Zone' movie, like, a thousand times.
It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.
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.
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 love movies; many an afternoon skipping school were spent in a funky, run-down Brooklyn movie theater. — © Dan Fogler
I love movies; many an afternoon skipping school were spent in a funky, run-down Brooklyn movie theater.
I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men.' Or play Peter Dinklage's cousin on 'Game of Thrones.' That would be fun.
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