Top 44 Val Kilmer Quotes

It’s fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren’t actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n’ roll. I’ve listened to ‘Ziggy Stardust‘ as much as any rock n’ roll fan – I don’t really know what it’s about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

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.

Acting is very immediate.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they’ve made billions.

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.

With legitimate journalists I’ve always had a great time – I’ve never gone out of my way to court the press. That’s probably cost me some money, but I’ve always had the respect of my peers.

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

If you’re in a hit movie, it’s good to be in another hit movie straight away.

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.

Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.

I sang the songs in ‘The Doors‘.

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

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

I’m very wary of news on television.

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

There was no one around called ‘Val’ when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

I’m a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

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.

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.

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.

There’s nothing good about divorce.

Why do women get paid less money? It doesn’t make any sense.

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

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He’s so great. I just love his writing.

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.

News isn’t even the truth on television.

I live on a ranch that’s larger than Manhattan. That’s a weird circumstance.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

It’s fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren’t actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n’ roll.

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they’re done working. I still find that entertaining.

I am not an American; I am the American.

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

I’ve never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it’s not that the system is making criminals, it’s that it’s making criminals better criminals. We’re breeding them like rats and it has to change.

When you’re young, you’re always concerned about how you’re being seen and how you’re being criticized.

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