Val Quotes

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

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

You never quiet the love message. Never.

Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.

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

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

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

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.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

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

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.

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

There's nothing good about divorce.

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.

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

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