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Val Kilmer is an American actor born on December 31, 1959. He is known for his outstanding performances in various films, such as his role as 'Douglas Morrie' in the 'Batman' series and 'Matty Lattes' in the 'Scream' series. Kilmer's career spans a wide range of genres, from drama to action, to independent films.

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“Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, "The cops, the cops, the cops..." I was what you call the buzz kill.”

Ifs Would Be School High School Marijuana Cop Buzz Mellow

Author:Val Kilmer

“There are some directors I should have worked with. I`d like to have worked with Robert Altman - I turned him down a couple of times when I was younger. My thing now is if it`s a good director I`ll never say no - I`m just gonna say yes from now on.”

Ifs Should Couple Directors Should Have Good Directors

Author:Val Kilmer

“There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.”

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Author:Val Kilmer

“Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.”

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Author:Val Kilmer

“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Val Kilmer

“If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.”

Ifs Knows Spiritual Neglect

Author: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.”

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Author:Val Kilmer

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

Ifs Looks Watches Tvs News Definitions Look Up Dictionary

Author:Val Kilmer

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

Author:Val Kilmer

“Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.”

Ifs Next Stuck Beatty

Author: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.”

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Author: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.”

Ifs War Dog Congress Wags Wag The Dog

Author:Val Kilmer

About the Author

Born: December 31, 1959
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 117

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