Val Kilmer Quotes
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.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.
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Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in front of you waiving his arms. You now what he's doing. You don't know what the director is doing unless you know a lot about theater and even then you can only deduce it. You know it when you go to rehearsal. You really know it when they are rehearsing something of yours. I learned more in the rehearsals for The Letter than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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What lovely things Thy hand hath made.
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
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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.
