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I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Val Kilmer

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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
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Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.
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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.
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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.
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Once is more than generous for any lifetime.
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A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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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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I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.
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It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can`t explain.
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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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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.
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Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
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Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.
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It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.
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