I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in. Walton Goggins More Quotes by Walton Goggins More Quotes From Walton Goggins I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that. Walton Goggins storytellinggoneyears 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. Walton Goggins bluerunningpeople 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. Walton Goggins listening-to-musicmovingthinking I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'. Walton Goggins earnestthinking I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people. Walton Goggins agendaspeopleworld 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state. Walton Goggins narcissisticportraitsstates 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. Walton Goggins growing-uppainviews 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. Walton Goggins love-makingactorsexpression 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. Walton Goggins tarantinosomedaythinking 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. Walton Goggins foolphonesreality 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. Walton Goggins wantclassteacher 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. Walton Goggins gratefulopportunitypeople 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. Walton Goggins spacewantpeople Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down. Walton Goggins hillskingsway For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen. Walton Goggins violentvulnerablepeople There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being. Walton Goggins humansbeautifulworld If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes. Walton Goggins tarantinoopportunitybelieve Sadly, in this country - maybe this is in the history of the world, really - it's the urban experience versus the bucolic experience. And it is different, but therein lies the slow progression of democracy. We are a melting pot. Walton Goggins democracycountrylying An actor that tells you that they have real choices between material is, for the most part, lying. There are very few people that have opportunities. But what you do have where I am in my career, is saying no to the things that seem repetitious. For me, I always look for material that allows me to bring my worldview to it. And those opportunities, since the beginning of The Shield, have grown exponentially. Walton Goggins realopportunitylying With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's second movie, Daddy and Them, to just a bunch of movies that I have done have been comic, and they're usually from a cynical kind of pessimistic point of view which is probably my sense of humor, and this is a part of myself in everybody that I play. Walton Goggins cynicaldaddydrama
