Walton Goggins
Walton Goggins
Walton Sanders Goggins, Jr.is an American actor. On television, he played Shane Vendrell on The Shield and Boyd Crowder on Justified. He has also appeared in films, such as The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained, Machete Kills, Lincoln, The Apostle, Chrystal, That Evening Sun, Miracle at St. Anna, American Ultra and Predators. He co-produced and starred in the 2001 short film The Accountant, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth10 November 1971
CityBirmingham, AL
CountryUnited States of America
Walton Goggins quotes about
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.
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.
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.
I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.
For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.
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.
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.
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.
I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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.
The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.
'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.
We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.