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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
Val Kilmer
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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
Actor
Film Actor
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LA
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Val Edward Kilmer
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I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.
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Once is more than generous for any lifetime.
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Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.
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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?
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.
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I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
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A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.
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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.
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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.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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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.
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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.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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