Val Kilmer Quotes

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

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.

Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.

I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.

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.

I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.

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

Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.

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.

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.

Big movies are fun and it's great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

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.

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

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

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.

YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous.

If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.

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

Acting is very immediate.

Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

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. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

There's nothing good about divorce.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

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.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

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 absolutely original and completely self-made.

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.