Val Kilmer Quotes
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I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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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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News isn't even the truth on television.
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Acting is very immediate.
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Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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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 going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
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I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous.
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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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There's nothing good about divorce.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.