Val Kilmer quotes - page 3

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote. (Val Kilmer)
I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people. View quote
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced. View quote
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it. (Val Kilmer)
It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET. View quote
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I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this. View quote
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My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress. View quote
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away. View quote
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance. View quote
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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. View quote
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Women have fantastic intuition. I think they come more naturally to grace; tenderness and affection are considered feminine qualities. It's important for men to learn from women those characteristics that don't come as naturally to us. I think my father was raised in a time when those things were taught to be signs of weakness; that is, if you were sensitive and aware in a different way from just the macho version. It's wonderful that that's changing. View quote
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