Val Kilmer Quotes
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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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.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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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.
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.
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It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.
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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.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.