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We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Walton Goggins
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Walton Goggins
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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Birmingham
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Walton Sanders Goggins
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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 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'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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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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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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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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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'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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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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I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.
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My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
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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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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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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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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 aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.
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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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If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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