Val Kilmer quotes - page 2

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up. (Val Kilmer)

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

Val Kilmer

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

Val Kilmer

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.

Val Kilmer

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

Val Kilmer

My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

Val Kilmer

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

Val Kilmer

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

Val Kilmer

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.

Val Kilmer

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

Val Kilmer

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. (Val Kilmer)

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

Val Kilmer

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

Val Kilmer

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.

Val Kilmer

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.

Val Kilmer

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

Val Kilmer

Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.

Val Kilmer

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Val Kilmer

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.

Val Kilmer

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

Val Kilmer

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. (Val Kilmer)

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

Val Kilmer

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Val Kilmer

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.

Val Kilmer

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

Val Kilmer

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