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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

Val Kilmer

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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
Actor
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Film Producer
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Television Actor
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LA
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Val Edward Kilmer
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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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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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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.
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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 first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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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 think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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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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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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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 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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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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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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