Val Kilmer Quotes (38 Quotes)


    If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

    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.

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

    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.

    Movies always bring a great physical energy. I was very excited when I got the call.


    A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

    That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

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

    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.

    He's just getting started, ... Now he can remember what happened yesterday. I do want to say something truthful about Robert. There are just not that many actors this good, because actors are self-aware or self-possessed or both. And he knows who he is and has a sense of humor about it. And it's a hard business and to have things happen when they are bad, but to have to go through it with everyone asking questions about it all day long is really tough.

    I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

    The only time it's ever like work is when you don't like what you've done.

    Who am I seeing. No one. I'm lonely. Do you have any daughters

    I'm just shy, ... I wanted to meet Robert because I liked his acting. But he was looking at me funny, so we just shook hands the first time we met.

    Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

    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.

    Be mean. Nothing but mean. And all I'm doing 20 years and 50 movies later is just still trying to live the life.

    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.

    Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

    Work can be hard sometimes - acting - the arts can be hard sometimes in that way - hard to give yourself that inspiration if you don't have a job.

    Thank you. I would like to say something truthful about Robert. He knows who he is and has a sense of humor about it. It's a hard business. And to have things happen that are bad and have to go through it with everybody asking you questions about it all day long is tough.

    Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

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


    I remember literally aching from laughing, with him telling the darkest story you could ever imagine because we'd just passed a motel where he'd spent three weeks one night waiting for the guy to come, ... I'm a romantic. I hope for the best, and I think the whole town's rooting for him.

    I always like a good laugh, and Robert's very, very funny,

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

    I was stoned. It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time.

    I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

    So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.

    I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.

    News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

    I love that it's a risky and strange comedy. And it's one of those movies that hasn't been shredded by the studio system and watered down.

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

    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.

    I'm very wary of news on television.


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


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