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Walton Goggins Biography

Walton Sanders Goggins Jr. (born November 10, 1971) is an American actor. He co-produced and starred in the 2001 short film The Accountant, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in the FX series Justified.

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An actor that tells you that they have real choices between material is, for the most part, lying. There are very few people that have opportunities. But what you do have where I am in my career, is saying no to the things that seem repetitious. For me, I always look for material that allows me to bring my worldview to it. And those opportunities, since the beginning of The Shield, have grown exponentially.

Lying, Opportunities, Opportunity, Real, Shield

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.

Cinematically, Listening To Music, Moving, Think, Thinking

T I was doing Predators, this new movie for FOX simultaneously, and this character that I play in the movie is "Walter Stands," and I had a plethora of ink all up and down my skin. Once you have ink on your body, how it informs you as an actor, and you kind of get in that space and occupy that space of that character, when you're without them, when I'm just Walton Goggins in the world and I'm without my tattoos, I feel a little naked.

Character, Movie, Play, Simultaneously, Skins, Tattoo

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

Kind, Life, Raw, See, Three, Villain

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.

Growing Up, Pain, Views, World, Desire, View

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.

Boredom, Parts, Sees, Sometimes, Thinking, True

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.

Bucolic, Country, Democracy, Lying, Maybe, Slow

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. It's kind of like going to a new high school. You want to see who everyone is before you introduce yourself, really, to kind of make friends. I think any smart person does that in social situations

Person, Quiet, School, Smart, Thinking, Whenever

We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Hero, Heroes, Look, Looks, Unfortunately, Want

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

Communication, Jackson, Like, Scorsese, Silent, Tarantino

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.

Amalgamation, Childhood, Kind, Life, Moving, People

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.

Certain, Good, Laughing, Lines, People, Say

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

Down, Hill, Hills, King, Kings, Way

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.

Call, Enough, Fool, Happen, Phones, Reality

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.

Anxiety, Comfortable, Who I Am, Youth

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.

Hate, Kind, Metaphor, Story, War

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

Problem, Restaurant, Restaurants, Table, Tables, Walk

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

Believe, Favorite, Music, My Favorite, Probably, Sad Music

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.

Life, Like, Live, People, Space, Want

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

Character, Interested, Knows, Southern, Stereotypical

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