Walton Goggins Quotations

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

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

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

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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