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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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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
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Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.
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There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.
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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.
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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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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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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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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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There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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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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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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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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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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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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