Walton Goggins Quotes

#1. But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

#2. I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

#3. My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

#4. 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.

#5. 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.

#6. I don't take a scene or word for granted.

#7. 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

#8. I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

#9. 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.

#10. You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

#11. Quentin [Taranino] will say, "We've got it, but we're gonna do it one more time. Why?" And then, the entire cast and crew chimes in and says, "Because we love making movies!" He is a person who celebrates this form of expression, and it is evident in his movies, his conversations, his extensive knowledge about the history of what we do, and the actors and crew that he assembles.

#12. I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

#13. 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.

#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.

#15. I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

#16. The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

#17. 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.

#18. I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

#19. We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

#20. 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.

#21. 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.

#22. There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

#23. 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.

#24. I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

#25. 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.

#26. 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.

#27. 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.

#28. 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.

#29. For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.