Val Kilmer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.”
-- Val KilmerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.”
-- Val KilmerSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.”
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“Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.”
-- Val KilmerSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.”
-- Val KilmerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.”
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“I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.”
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“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.”
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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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“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 KilmerSource : "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.
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“Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.”
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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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“Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.”
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“Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.”
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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 never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.”
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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.”
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“That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.”
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“It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.”
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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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“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.”
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“Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.”
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“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.”
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“It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.”
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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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“Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.”
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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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“Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.”
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“Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.”
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