Val Kilmer Quotes - Page 3

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

  Val Kilmer

  Children, Two, Inspire

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• 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

  People, Interesting, Creative

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

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• Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, "The cops, the cops, the cops..." I was what you call the buzz kill.

  Val Kilmer

  School, Marijuana, Would Be

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

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

  Val Kilmer

  Creative, Challenges, Making Money

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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.

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Way, Violent

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

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• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  Val Kilmer

  Fake People, Real, Thinking

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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.

  Val Kilmer

  Fun, Hollywood, Bigs

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  "Val goes out on a limb". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2004.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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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.

  Val Kilmer

  Actors, Parks, Born

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

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• 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.

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• The only time it`s ever like work is when you don`t like what you`ve done. I`m very lucky in that I haven`t cultivated fame. Which, from what I`ve seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they`re successful at it ... Especially people that aren`t such talented actors.

  Val Kilmer

  Successful, People, Lucky

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

  Val Kilmer

  Personality

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• I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, "That's a huge idea." Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Museums, Average

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

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

  Val Kilmer

  Bob, Firsts, Dylan

  "The only other guy I've kissed was Colin Farrell, and Robert was... better". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2005.

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

  Val Kilmer

  Children, Humility, Divorced

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

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

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Dollars, World

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

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• I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.

  Val Kilmer

  Real, Car, Fake

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

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• In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

  Val Kilmer

  Artist, Order, Discipline

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  Val Kilmer

  Mean, Thinking, Names

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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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