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I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

Val Kilmer

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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Val Edward Kilmer
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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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I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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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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Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.
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Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.
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You never quiet the love message. Never.
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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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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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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 never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.
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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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The only time it`s ever like work is when you don`t like what you`ve done. I`m very lucky in that I haven`t cultivated fame. Which, from what I`ve seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they`re successful at it ... Especially people that aren`t such talented actors.
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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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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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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?
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I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.
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