We are big oafy elephants and they are butterflies. – Val Kilmer Actor sums up difference between men and women.
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn’t do it was because of The Saint. – 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian – the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals. – Val Kilmer
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
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
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 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
It’s a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird. – Val Kilmer
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don’t want to be told how to define my future. – Val Kilmer
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
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. – 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
