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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
Val Kilmer
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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
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Val Edward Kilmer
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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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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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Gregory Peck was so charismatic. I saw a woman fall down - fall down! - when she saw him in a restaurant. And Brando. We were in London, and by then he was about 380 pounds. There was a gorgeous waitress, and off he went, in direct competition with me for this young girl's attention, speaking French, making her blush.
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If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.
Val Kilmer
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
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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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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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My only business plan was to get lucky.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.
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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.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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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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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, That's a huge idea. Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
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It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.
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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
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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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