Val Kilmer quotes - page 2

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up. (Val Kilmer)
I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it. View quote
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day. View quote
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals. View quote
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I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar. View quote
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My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church. View quote
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird. View quote
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions. View quote
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A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time. View quote
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. View quote
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting. (Val Kilmer)
Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young. View quote
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic. View quote
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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining. View quote
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I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year. View quote
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is. View quote
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste. View quote
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that. View quote
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him. View quote
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. View quote
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7. (Val Kilmer)
Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging. View quote
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Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. View quote
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I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered. View quote
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality. View quote
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Val Kilmer

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Photo: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Actor
Born: December 31, 1959
Died: April 1, 2025
Quotes count: 68
Wikipedia: Val Kilmer

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