Latest Val Kilmer Quotes from Interviews

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• It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

  Val Kilmer

  Sound, Doe, Sacred

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Val Kilmer

  Believe, I Believe, Intimacy

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Val Kilmer

  Done, Theater, Unbeatable

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.

  Val Kilmer

  Humility, Understanding, Steps

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Val Kilmer

  Wages, Pay, Wells

• If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.

  Val Kilmer

  Spiritual, Neglect, Knows

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.

  Val Kilmer

  Roles, Study, Better Person

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.

  Val Kilmer

  Gratitude, Sorry, Enough

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• You never quiet the love message. Never.

  Val Kilmer

  Messages, Quiet

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  Mean, Voice, Tolerance

• 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.

  Val Kilmer

  Book, Reading, Adventure

• If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.

  Val Kilmer

  Writing, Play, Challenges

• Once is more than generous for any lifetime.

  Val Kilmer

  Lifetime, Generous

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Val Kilmer

  America, People, Way

• My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

  Val Kilmer

  Lucky, Plans, Business Plan

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message By Lawrence Inglee". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Val Kilmer

  Acting, Matter, Wells

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Val Kilmer

  Taken, Ambition, Careers

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Val Kilmer

  Children, Land, Ideas

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message By Lawrence Inglee". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.

  Val Kilmer

  Helping, Sometimes, Easy

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?

  Val Kilmer

  Whales, Looks, Breakfast

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

  Val Kilmer

  Long, Matter, Levels

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Val Kilmer

  Girl, Fall, Competition

  "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

• You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced. I was very hurt and very angry and so was she. But when kids are involved, you either become friends with respect or you become mortal enemies.

  Val Kilmer

  Hurt, Children, Kids

  "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

• Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Way, Violent

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

• 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.

  Val Kilmer

  New York, School, Years

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.