Val Kilmer quotes - page 3

Val Kilmer is an American actor known for his diverse roles in film and theater. His performances in movies like "Top Gun," "The Doors," and "Batman Forever" have brought him widespread fame. He has also garnered admiration for his dedication to complex and challenging characters throughout his career. Here are 68 of his quotes:

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote. (Val Kilmer)

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

Val Kilmer

So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.

Val Kilmer

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

Val Kilmer

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

Val Kilmer

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

Val Kilmer

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

Val Kilmer

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

Val Kilmer

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

Val Kilmer

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

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There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it. (Val Kilmer)

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

Val Kilmer

I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.

Val Kilmer

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

Val Kilmer

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

Val Kilmer

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

Val Kilmer

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Val Kilmer

Women have fantastic intuition. I think they come more naturally to grace; tenderness and affection are considered feminine qualities. It's important for men to learn from women those characteristics that don't come as naturally to us. I think my father was raised in a time when those things were taught to be signs of weakness; that is, if you were sensitive and aware in a different way from just the macho version. It's wonderful that that's changing.

Val Kilmer

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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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