61 Quotes by Walton Goggins

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.

I don’t take a scene or word for granted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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