Val Kilmer Quotes

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.

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.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

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

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.

Once is more than generous for any lifetime.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

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

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

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

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

There's nothing good about divorce.

News isn't even the truth on television.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

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

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

What I do for a living is listen.

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

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

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

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

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

Acting is very immediate.

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

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

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

I'm very wary of news on television.

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