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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
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Val Edward Kilmer
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.
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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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I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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Gregory Peck was so charismatic. I saw a woman fall down - fall down! - when she saw him in a restaurant. And Brando. We were in London, and by then he was about 380 pounds. There was a gorgeous waitress, and off he went, in direct competition with me for this young girl's attention, speaking French, making her blush.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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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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Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.
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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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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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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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Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
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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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