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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: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Actor
Explorer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Photographer
Television Actor
Birmingham
Alabama
Walton Sanders Goggins
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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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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 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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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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I have a bit of a bucolic kind of upbringing, and so I certainly bring an amalgamation of different people that I've met over the course of my life, especially before moving to Los Angeles, so I guess my childhood was my homework in a lot of ways for Harlan County.
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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.
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The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.
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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 like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
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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 think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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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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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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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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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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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 aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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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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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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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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