Val Kilmer Quotes

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.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

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.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

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.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

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

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

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

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

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

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

It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can't explain.

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

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

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

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

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

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? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

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

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?

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

Once is more than generous for any lifetime.

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

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

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.

You never quiet the love message. Never.

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

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.