Top 37 Walton Goggins Quotes
#1. I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
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#2. You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher who is able to contextualize it or deliver the message in a way that you're riveted.
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#3. Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
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#4. I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.
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#5. I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.
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#6. We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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#7. Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.
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#8. The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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#9. The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.
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#10. When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.
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#11. I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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#12. If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.
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#13. For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.
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#14. I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
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#15. Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.
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#16. I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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#17. I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
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#18. Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.
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#19. But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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#20. 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.
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#21. I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.
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#22. I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.
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#23. My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
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#24. I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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#25. I never fancied myself having a prejudice towards people with tattoos. I personally don't have any and I don't think that I do, but I do see that people treat me differently with tattoos. People get out of my way.
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#26. I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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#27. I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
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#28. You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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#30. Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.
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#31. No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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#32. Maybe when you're alone or no one's looking, you dare to think, "Maybe someday I could get to work with somebody like Quentin Tarantino." For me, it happened. And it didn't just happen once, it's happened twice.
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#33. Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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#34. There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.
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#35. I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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#36. I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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#37. I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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