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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
-
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
-
You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
-
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
-
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
-
When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
-
I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
-
My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
-
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
-
There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
-
I'm very wary of news on television.
-
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.
-
Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
-
A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
-
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
-
My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
-
I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
-
I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.