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I actually didn't always want to be an actor. — Jack Kilmer

Gay men know that the way to a woman's heart is through her son. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Things have a terrible permanence when people die. — Joyce Kilmer

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people. — Val Kilmer

I'm a drag queen. I'm a celebrity trapped in a normal person's body. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

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. — Val Kilmer

There are a thousand ways to play any role. — Val Kilmer

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not. — Val Kilmer

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep. — Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film 'Spartan.' — Rebecca Pidgeon

Once is more than generous for any lifetime. — Val Kilmer

For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food. — Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man ... A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man. — Joyce Kilmer

When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized. — Val Kilmer

And sometimes the show can't go on. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said ... I drank what? — Val Kilmer

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness. — Val Kilmer

Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste. — Val Kilmer

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. — Val Kilmer

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television. — Val Kilmer

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar. — Derek Kilmer

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. — Val Kilmer

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET. — Val Kilmer

My only "business plan" was to get lucky. — Val Kilmer

The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out. — Val Kilmer

I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting. — Val Kilmer

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity. — Val Kilmer

There's nothing good about divorce. — Val Kilmer

News isn't even the truth on television. — Val Kilmer

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid. — Derek Luke

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off. — Val Kilmer

Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message.
I learned that from advertising. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love. — Val Kilmer

Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense. — Val Kilmer

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success. — Val Kilmer

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings. — Joyce Kilmer

I'm very wary of news on television. — Val Kilmer

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote. — Val Kilmer

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind. — Val Kilmer

What goes on between the actor and director is sacred. — Jack Kilmer

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. — Joyce Kilmer

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride. — Joyce Kilmer

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes — Joyce Kilmer

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. — Val Kilmer

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. — Val Kilmer

I've always been really into movies, and I definitely thought I'd be involved with movies at some point. — Jack Kilmer

My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff. — Jack Kilmer

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light. — Joyce Kilmer

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. — Val Kilmer

Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for. — Val Kilmer

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me. — Val Kilmer

I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance. — Derek Kilmer

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging. — Val Kilmer

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint. — Val Kilmer

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree — Joyce Kilmer

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young. — Val Kilmer

Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication. — Kilmer S. McCully

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap. — Derek Kilmer

Once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more. — Derek Kilmer

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. — Val Kilmer

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing. — Val Kilmer

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks. — Jack Kilmer

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor. — Val Kilmer

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance. — Val Kilmer

What I do for a living is listen. — Val Kilmer

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it. — Val Kilmer

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys. — Val Kilmer

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is. — Val Kilmer

I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future. — Jack Kilmer

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining. — Val Kilmer

It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting. — Val Kilmer

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress. — Val Kilmer

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it. — Val Kilmer

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions. — Val Kilmer

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar. — Val Kilmer

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic. — Val Kilmer

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future. — Val Kilmer

I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it. — Joyce Kilmer

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality. — Val Kilmer

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. — Val Kilmer

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced. — Val Kilmer

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. — Val Kilmer

I love acting, and doing it well matters to me. — Val Kilmer

If you start buying your own bullshit, you risk becoming management material. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great. — Val Kilmer

But only God can make a tree. — Joyce Kilmer

There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the songs that must be sung. — Joyce Kilmer

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard. — Val Kilmer

I figured he was adhering to the adage that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't make fun of the person paying the mortgage. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life. — Val Kilmer

It's so early do you want some coffee or something? — Val Kilmer

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird. — Val Kilmer

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that. — Val Kilmer

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'. — Val Kilmer

Acting is very immediate. — Val Kilmer

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe. — Val Kilmer