Val Kilmer Quotes
The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
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Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.
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The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'
