Quotes by Walton Goggins

Walton Goggins

‘The Portrait of Dorian Grey’ beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

Narcissistic

Portraits

States

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.

Exercise

Reality

Thinking

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

Opportunity

Real

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.

Art

People

Vacuums

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

Believe

My Favorite

Sad Music

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

Who I Am

Youth

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

Granted

Scene

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

War

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.

Childhood

Moving

People

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.

Listening To Music

Moving

Thinking

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Actors

Anxiety

Art

Barns

Believe

Boredom

Bread

Character

Childhood

Class

Exercise

Expression

Fool

Forests

Granted

Guy

Hate

Heart

Hero

Hills

Hopkins

Journey

Kind

Kings

Knows

Laughing

Light

Lines

Listening To Music

Long

Looks

Love Making

Lying

Matter

Morocco

Moving

My Favorite

Narcissistic

Opportunity

People

Phones

Portraits

Pottery

Quiet

Real

Reality

Sad Music

Scene

School

Skins

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Quotes by Walton Goggins

Walton Goggins

‘The Portrait of Dorian Grey’ beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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