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Film Actor Inspirational Quotes (117438)

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I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.
Val Kilmer
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The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.
Val Kilmer
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
Val Kilmer
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Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
Val Kilmer
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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
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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
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
Val Kilmer
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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
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
Val Kilmer
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
Val Kilmer
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
Val Kilmer
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A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.
Val Kilmer
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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
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In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
Val Kilmer
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I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.
Val Kilmer
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I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.
Katie Leung
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I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.
Kent McCord
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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
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
Val Kilmer
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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
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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
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I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director's ignorance. I wasn't sensitive to the fact that it's very hard to direct.
Val Kilmer
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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
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