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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.

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Walton Goggins
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Actor
Explorer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Photographer
Television Actor
Birmingham
Alabama
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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.
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The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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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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Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.
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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.
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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.
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I hate to use this as a metaphor, but making movies is kind of like going to war. It's not - but the stamina required and what it takes to tell a story that is this big in scope, you need a general that will bring out the best in you.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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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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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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I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.
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Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.
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