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I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.

Val Kilmer

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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
California
Val Edward Kilmer
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I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.
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I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.
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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 love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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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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It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.
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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 character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.
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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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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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If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.
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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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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
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Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
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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.
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There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.
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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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