Walton Goggins Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes, while sometimes true, are exaggerated for me to the point of boredom.

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

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.

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.

I've had a great career. I've had a great life. I am truly blessed by my working experiences.

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

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

I'm kind of the funny guy that hopefully kind of wins your heart if I did my job.

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

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

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

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

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