Walton Goggins Quotes

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

I hate the fact that he's doing that, but the fact is that, you know what, that's a human being, though. He let his guard down one day to me, a friend.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

At the end of the day, what I try to bring to villainous characters is a sense of humanity.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

I realize that I'm one of those guys that if I'm not with you, you hate me. But when I'm with you, you understand who I am and what I'm about and love me.

Educate yourself, because this society is geared to have us hate each other. The longer we hate each other, the more we can't come together as humanity and look at the knuckleheads screwing it up for everybody.

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".