Val Kilmer Quotes
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Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
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There's nothing good about divorce.
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I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.
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My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing. I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher and higher. I try to surpass myself. That`s all. But I also know how to preserve myself, to not let myself get bedazzled by the smoke and mirrors.
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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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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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Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.
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News isn't even the truth on television.
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I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.
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Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.
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Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
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It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.
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I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.
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Gregory Peck was so charismatic. I saw a woman fall down - fall down! - when she saw him in a restaurant. And Brando. We were in London, and by then he was about 380 pounds. There was a gorgeous waitress, and off he went, in direct competition with me for this young girl's attention, speaking French, making her blush.
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Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.
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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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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
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The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'
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I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.
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Big movies are fun and it`s great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.