Top 30 Walton Goggins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

2. “I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.”

— Walton Goggins

3. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

4. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

5. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

6. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

7. “I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.”

— Walton Goggins

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

— Walton Goggins

9. “My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.”

— Walton Goggins

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

— Walton Goggins

11. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

12. “For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.”

— Walton Goggins

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

— Walton Goggins

14. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

15. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

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

— Walton Goggins

17. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

18. “I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.”

— Walton Goggins

19. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

20. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

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

— Walton Goggins

22. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

23. “There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.”

— Walton Goggins

24. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

25. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

26. “The life of a character doesn’t just exist between action and cut.”

— Walton Goggins

27. “You know, I’m from the South, and I wasn’t interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.”

— Walton Goggins

28. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

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

— Walton Goggins

30. “The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you’d want to have over at Thanksgiving.”

— Walton Goggins

31. “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.”

— Walton Goggins

32. “If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.”

— Walton Goggins

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

— Walton Goggins

34. “I think I’ve made a career out of making despicable people likable.”

— Walton Goggins