Val Kilmer Quotes
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.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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Τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ.
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I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.
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Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.
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Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.
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My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
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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.
