Best Val Kilmer Quotes & Sayings

The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances. — Val Kilmer

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered. — Val Kilmer

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

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. — Val Kilmer

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

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

I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year. — Val Kilmer

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

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

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. — Val Kilmer

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. — Val Kilmer

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

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7. — Val Kilmer

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. — Val Kilmer

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

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre. — Val Kilmer

My only "business plan" was to get lucky. — Val Kilmer

It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility. — Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious. — Val Kilmer

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him. — Val Kilmer

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it. — Val Kilmer

What I do for a living is listen. — Val Kilmer

It's so early do you want some coffee or something? — Val Kilmer

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist. — Val Kilmer

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance. — Val Kilmer

There's nothing good about divorce. — Val Kilmer

You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life. — Val Kilmer

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. — Val Kilmer

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. — Val Kilmer

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. — Val Kilmer

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced. — Val Kilmer

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