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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.

Val Kilmer

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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
Actor
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Val Edward Kilmer
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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 love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
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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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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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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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So it`s always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It`s hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.
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A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.
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I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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Acting is very immediate.
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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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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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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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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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If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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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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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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