Val Kilmer Quotes

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• I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.
• 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…
• It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
• I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?
• I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I…
• 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,…
• I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.
• 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…
• Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're…
• Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
• 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?…
• There's nothing good about divorce.
• 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.…
• Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
• Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
• 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.
• I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
• 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…
• 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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