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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.
Walton Goggins
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Walton Goggins
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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Film Producer
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Birmingham
Alabama
Walton Sanders Goggins
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We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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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 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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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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The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.
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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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I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.
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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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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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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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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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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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As an actor, you're afforded these experiences that are once-in-a-lifetime for so many people. More often than not, you can't tell the seasons based on the changing of the leaves, but on the experiences you've had.
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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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Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.
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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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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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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 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.
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