Walton Goggins Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Portraits, Narcissistic, States

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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

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  Years, Gone, Storytelling

  "Walton Goggins' Unchained Melody". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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• It's about something that I'm extremely passionate about: exploring other cultures, how Americans are perceived by other cultures and how we perceive other cultures through our worldview. I travel whenever I get an opportunity to do so, and I think this country is ready for a show on television that is bilingual and really puts front and center another culture, both as the protagonist and the antagonist.

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  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Thinking, Earnest

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. January 31, 2012.

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• 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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  Thinking, Someday, Tarantino

  Source: collider.com

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• 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. It's kind of like going to a new high school. You want to see who everyone is before you introduce yourself, really, to kind of make friends. I think any smart person does that in social situations

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  Smart, School, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Real, Lying, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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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  People, Vulnerable, Violent

  Source: collider.com

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• 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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  Grateful, Opportunity, People

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Country, Lying, Democracy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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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  Space, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• 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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  Reality, Phones, Fool

  Source: collider.com

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• T I was doing Predators, this new movie for FOX simultaneously, and this character that I play in the movie is "Walter Stands," and I had a plethora of ink all up and down my skin.Once you have ink on your body, how it informs you as an actor, and you kind of get in that space and occupy that space of that character, when you're without them, when I'm just Walton Goggins in the world and I'm without my tattoos, I feel a little naked.

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  Tattoo, Character, Skins

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

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  Drama, Daddy, Cynical

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Boredom, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I take it as a real compliment that people believe that I can in some ways mine the disenfranchised, the marginalized, the somewhat off-center - psychologically speaking - people in our society, and bring a real humanity to them, and make people see what would otherwise be a person that you would hate. Find a reason to love them and see the world from their point of view.

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  Hate, Real, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Communication, Silent, Tarantino

  Source: collider.com

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• 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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  People, Matter, Bread

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Tables, Problem, Restaurants

  Source: collider.com

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• 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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  Tattoo, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Character, Southern, Knows

  "The Justified star on how cable TV made bad guys better, and why Robert Duvall scared the shit out of him as a kid". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• 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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  Running, Blue, People

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• 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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  Three, Kind, Villain

  "The Justified star on how cable TV made bad guys better, and why Robert Duvall scared the shit out of him as a kid". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• 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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  Growing Up, Pain, Views

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• 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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  School, Light, People

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