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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 two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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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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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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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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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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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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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.
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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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I'm very wary of news on television.
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.
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There are some directors I should have worked with. I`d like to have worked with Robert Altman - I turned him down a couple of times when I was younger. My thing now is if it`s a good director I`ll never say no - I`m just gonna say yes from now on.
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Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.
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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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