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I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.

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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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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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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The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.
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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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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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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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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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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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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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Big movies are fun and it`s great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.
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Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
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Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.
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I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.
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New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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