Top 100 Kilmer's Quotes
#1. Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time.
Derek Luke
#2. I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.
Joyce Kilmer
#3. 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
#4. 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.
Val Kilmer
#5. 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.
Val Kilmer
#6. The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.
Joyce Kilmer
#7. I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.
Joyce Kilmer
#8. I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
Jack Kilmer
#9. Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
Val Kilmer
#10. Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
Val Kilmer
#11. If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
Val Kilmer
#12. It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
Val Kilmer
#13. We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
Val Kilmer
#14. Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.
Jack Kilmer
#15. 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.
Val Kilmer
#16. 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
#17. It's so early do you want some coffee or something?
Val Kilmer
#18. I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.
Val Kilmer
#19. Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message.
I learned that from advertising.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#20. I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.
Val Kilmer
#21. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.
Val Kilmer
#22. Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
Val Kilmer
#23. I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.
Val Kilmer
#24. 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.
Val Kilmer
#25. There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
Val Kilmer
#26. 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.
Val Kilmer
#27. I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.
Val Kilmer
#28. I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene ... and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.
Val Kilmer
#29. There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's education system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#30. But there's something flirty/sexy about his voice that's appealing to my inner romantic comedy actress.
Then again, maybe it's just his penthouse apartment I'm hearing. My inner gold digger frequently beats the crap out of my inner Meg Ryan.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#31. 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.
Val Kilmer
#32. 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.
Val Kilmer
#33. While Martha's skins fell off her tomatoes like a silk slip off a supermodel, our skins got caught in the deep folds and stuck stubbornly. It was like trying to peel leather pants off of a sweaty, hairy, fat guy.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#34. I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.
Val Kilmer
#35. 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?
Val Kilmer
#36. 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.
Val Kilmer
#37. They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.
Joyce Kilmer
#38. Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
Val Kilmer
#39. What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.
Joyce Kilmer
#40. Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
Val Kilmer
#41. I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
Val Kilmer
#42. I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.
Val Kilmer
#44. 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
#45. I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man ... A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.
Joyce Kilmer
#46. 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
#47. Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
Val Kilmer
#48. I think it's a little presumptuous on his part to think that I would want to talk to him anyway. I mean, sure, I went home with him, probably slept with him, ate breakfast with him, and wore his clothes to work the next day. None of this I see as necessarily flirtatious on my part.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#49. There's nothing good about divorce.
Val Kilmer
#50. That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
Val Kilmer
#51. I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
Jack Kilmer
#52. I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.
Derek Luke
#53. I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
Val Kilmer
#54. I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
Val Kilmer
#56. It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.
Joyce Kilmer
#57. I've always thought that one of the signs of true adulthood is when you realize that you spend each Christmas trying to relive childhood memories that never really happened in the first place.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#58. It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
Val Kilmer
#59. If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.
Val Kilmer
#60. 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
#61. There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.
Val Kilmer
#62. Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of bein.
Val Kilmer
#64. 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
#65. 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.
Val Kilmer
#66. It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
Val Kilmer
#67. If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
Val Kilmer
#68. Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.
Val Kilmer
#69. I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
Val Kilmer
#70. I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
Val Kilmer
#71. Once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#72. 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
#73. Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
Val Kilmer
#74. I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
Val Kilmer
#75. Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.
Val Kilmer
#76. There are a thousand ways to play any role.
Val Kilmer
#77. I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
Jack Kilmer
#78. I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
Val Kilmer
#79. The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes
Joyce Kilmer
#80. 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
#81. I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.
Val Kilmer
#82. Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
Val Kilmer
#83. When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
Val Kilmer
#84. 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
#85. Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.
Derek Kilmer
#86. I've always been really into movies, and I definitely thought I'd be involved with movies at some point.
Jack Kilmer
#87. I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
Val Kilmer
#88. Arthur Ward would be the guy trying to reason with a zombie as it bit into the flesh of his arm.
Michelle Kilmer
#89. Once is more than generous for any lifetime.
Val Kilmer
#90. 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
#91. We're having Thanksgiving at our place," he said. "An old-fashioned Thanksgiving." "With drag queens and hookers and cranberry sauce?" I asked breathlessly. "Just like at Grandma's," he replied.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#92. My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
Jack Kilmer
#93. More than anything I wish he were here with me. "A relationship is an accumulation of shared history," he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#94. Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication.
Kilmer S. McCully
#95. 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
#96. For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food.
Joyce Kilmer
#97. My only "business plan" was to get lucky.
Val Kilmer
#98. The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.
Joyce Kilmer
#99. In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
There is a new-made grave today,
Built by never a spade nor pick,
Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
There lie many fighting men.
Dead in their youthful prime.
Joyce Kilmer
#100. 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
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