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Acting is very immediate.

Val Kilmer

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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Poet
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Val Edward Kilmer
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Acting

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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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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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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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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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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
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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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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.
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The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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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.
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