David Krumholtz Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

Gary Lorden (about David): He cares tremendously what the students and faculty [at Caltech] think. He's always asking me, 'Do the students buy it? Does this seem real to them? Do I look like I'm really doing what a mathematician would do?' And the answer is basically, Yes. I think he does a really nice job of both conveying that focus, sometimes myopic, single-minded, passionate devotion to solving a problem…

David (On Charlie, his character on "Numb3rs"): Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit."

David: (Speaking of having to scribble all the math equations on the set of "Numb3rs".) There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

David: Instead of being scoffed at, we've been praised and we've been welcomed into their good graces. Institutions like Cal Tech and MIT have come out and shown their support for the show. Texas Instruments has this whole nationwide course going on, where teachers can order Numb3rs DVDs and play scenes from the show in their classrooms, and then the students have worksheets to work off of, using the math that was used in the scene. That's reaching, we're told right now, if you can believe it, it's reaching 2 million kids. So, it's really had a far reaching effect. It's really awesome.

David: It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Television critic Matt Roush (on David’s work on 'Numb3rs'): [It is] probably his best TV work to date.

Trivia

David enjoys singing, especially rap.

David was involved with five failed series before Numb3rs came along.

David's family background is Jewish and Hungarian.

David was seen in the film, Guess Who, starring Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac.

Davis appeared in a TV commercial for Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper. He was a waiter.

Even though David was present in The Santa Clause and The Santa Clause 2 , he was not present in The Santa Clause 3.

David's father worked for the U.S. Postal Service.

David starred in the movie Life With Mikey opposite Michael J. Fox.

David is one of the many stars in the film Bobby (to be released in last 2006), which is about the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

David starred as the younger of two sons of a character played by Judd Hirsch on Broadway in Conversations With My Father in 1992. In 1993, David played a dorky misfit at camp in the film, Addams Family Values, a alongside peppy camp counselor, played by Peter MacNicol. Now, David and Judd again play father and son, while Peter is again a mentor-figure (albeit a less spunkier one) to David's math genius in the CBS drama, Numb3rs.

David had a humorous supporting role as Mr. Universe, an isolated information broker who lived on a secluded moon with a robotic companion, in the sci-fi adventure Serenity.

David grew up in Queens, New York; his mother was a dental assistant and his father was a postal worker.

David once played schizophrenic patient Paul Sobriki who fatally stabbed

Before Numb3rs, David did a number of television pilots, none of which lasted more than 13 episodes.

David has worked with actors Tony Shalhoub and Jason Biggs on Broadway.

David currently resides in Los Angeles.

David Krumholtz had a small role as Wednesday Addams' (Christina Ricci) socially stunted love interest in Addams Family Values in 1993.

David is currently dating actress

David is good friends with fellow actor Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks' son. He hooked Colin up with a guest-starring stint on Numb3rs as a rival mathematician.