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I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

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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Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.
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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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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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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.
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I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.
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I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?
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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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Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, The cops, the cops, the cops... I was what you call the buzz kill.
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I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.
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Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.
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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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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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Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
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