Val Kilmer Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Val Kilmer

  Mirrors, Challenges, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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• 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

  Next, Stuck, Beatty

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

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

  Val Kilmer

  Cowboy, Guy, Dresses

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• Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.

  Val Kilmer

  Stars, Real, Believe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It`s probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I`m sure I`m more guilty of being difficult than I`d like to remember. I don`t regret my desires; I`ve regretted the way I would communicate my desires. Maybe I`ve lost a job because of some rumor, I doubt it. But nobody good that I`ve worked with has ever said anything negative about me, because we`ve never had a negative experience. By good, I mean directors who do their homework, people that are passionate, crazy, never sleep, and do like I do and just go after it.

  Val Kilmer

  Jobs, Regret, Crazy

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• I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

  Val Kilmer

  Lying, Lucky, Plans

  "Val Kilmer Returns: Taking on Twain, Career Regrets, Celebrity and an Untraditional Hollywood Life". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 27, 2012.

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

  Val Kilmer

  Paid

  "Val Kilmer Is, I Mean As, Mark Twain". Interview with Jenny Block, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can`t explain.

  Val Kilmer

  Hurt, Kids, Missing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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

  Val Kilmer

  Winning, Want, Oscars

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

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Men, Looks

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• 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.

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• Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

  Val Kilmer

  Brother, Father, Opportunity

  "This much I know" by Ben Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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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.

  Val Kilmer

  Book, Reading, Adventure

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• 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.

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• I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

  Val Kilmer

  Song, Doors

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

  Val Kilmer

  Thinking, Transition, Consciousness

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

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

  Val Kilmer

  Years, Comedy, Wells

  "Robert Downey, Jr. & Val Kilmer (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)". Interview with George Merchan, www.chud.com. October 27, 2005.

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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.

  Val Kilmer

  Want, Film, Made

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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.

  Val Kilmer

  Girl, Fall, Competition

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

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

  Val Kilmer

  People, Actors, Awful

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• 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

  Fun, Acting, Watches

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• There are some directors I should have worked with. I`d like to have worked with Robert Altman - I turned him down a couple of times when I was younger. My thing now is if it`s a good director I`ll never say no - I`m just gonna say yes from now on.

  Val Kilmer

  Couple, Should Have, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Val Kilmer

  Directors, Three, Roles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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