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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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Walton Goggins
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Actor
Explorer
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Film Producer
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Television Actor
Birmingham
Alabama
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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Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 don't take a scene or word for granted.
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I've had a great career. I've had a great life. I am truly blessed by my working experiences.
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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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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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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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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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My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
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The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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