Val Kilmer

What I do for a living is listen.

— Val Kilmer

Once is more than generous for any lifetime.

— Val Kilmer

I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.

— Val Kilmer

Acting is very immediate.

— Val Kilmer

News isn't even the truth on television.

— Val Kilmer

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

— Val Kilmer

There's nothing good about divorce.

— Val Kilmer

I'm very wary of news on television.

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

— Val Kilmer

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

— Val Kilmer

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

— Val Kilmer

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

— Val Kilmer

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to…

— Val Kilmer

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you…

— 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

YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which…

— 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

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…

— Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's…

— Val Kilmer

Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal -…

— Val Kilmer

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that…

— Val Kilmer

I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood…

— Val Kilmer

I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for…

— Val Kilmer

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about…

— 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…

— Val Kilmer

Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you…

— Val Kilmer

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of…

— Val Kilmer

It's probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I'm sure I'm more guilty of being difficult…

— Val Kilmer

It's always been the same for me. I've always enjoyed acting, and I really love good actors; they're such unique characters. I…

— Val Kilmer

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

— Val Kilmer

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

You never quiet the love message. Never.

— Val Kilmer

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer