Val Quotes
You know something, the Big Valboski is a lot like a Rubix Cube... the more you play with it, the harder it gets!
You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD!
This leg will be known as Christmas, and this leg will be known as New Year's Eve! Ladies...why don't you all come visit the Big Valbowski between the holidays.
The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores!
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.
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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.
That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.
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.
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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.
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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?
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.
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.
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
