Val Kilmer Quotes

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Val Kilmer

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 31, 1959

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

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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.

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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

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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.

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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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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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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

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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.

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Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

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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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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

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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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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.

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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

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I'm very wary of news on television.

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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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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

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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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