Val Kilmer Quotes

• On set, you’ve got 50 people asking if you want a cup of coffee. You throw your shoes in a corner, someone puts them neatly together. It’s corrupting.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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  Tags in Comedy, Sure

• 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.

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

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• I’m very wary of news on television.

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

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• 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.

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• That’s the joy of art – it should be dangerous and challenging but it’s just art – it’s safe.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I sang the songs in ‘The Doors’.

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

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Val Kilmer (22)

Birth:	31st December, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer is best known for his roles as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors, Doc Holliday in Tombstone and Bruce Wayne/Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever.

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