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.

Val Kilmer

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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.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Powerful
  • Realize
  • Chips

• 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.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Country
  • Heroes

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• 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.

  

  Iman
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Want

• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Old
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• 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.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Understood
  • Appreciated

• I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.

  

  Chris Daughtry
  • Life

• The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I have talked to kids who have stopped doing these things on the weekend because they don't want to get caught. Obviously, you can't get every kid, but if you can save at least one life, to me that's priceless.

  

  Larry Buchanan
  • Life
  • Kid
  • Save

• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Father
  • Opportunity