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Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

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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
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Val Edward Kilmer
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Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
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If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.
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I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.
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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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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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There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.
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If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.
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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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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's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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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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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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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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The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.
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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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Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.
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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
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Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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