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Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

Val Kilmer

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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Poet
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
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Val Edward Kilmer
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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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New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.
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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.
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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.
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I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?
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I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.
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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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It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can`t explain.
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I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.
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There's nothing good about divorce.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.
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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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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.
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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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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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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.
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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.
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I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.
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The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.
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