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Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

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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Theater
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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'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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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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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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A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.
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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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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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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing. I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher and higher. I try to surpass myself. That`s all. But I also know how to preserve myself, to not let myself get bedazzled by the smoke and mirrors.
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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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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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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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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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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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So it`s always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It`s hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.
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