American - Actor | October 28, 1978 -
Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.
David Walton
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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.
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With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.
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There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.
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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?'
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If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.
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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.
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I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.
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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.
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Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
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When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'
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I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.
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