Top 90 Val Kilmer Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don’t want to be told how to define my future.”

— Val Kilmer

52. “A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.”

— Val Kilmer

53. “It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.”

— Val Kilmer

54. “I’ve found that Hollywood’s a really honest business. They don’t pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they’re real up-front about it.”

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

56. “Big movies are fun and it’s great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.”

— Val Kilmer

57. “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

58. “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

59. “My perception is that I’ve never done anything but work really hard.”

— Val Kilmer

60. “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

61. “I’m very wary of news on television.”

— Val Kilmer

62. “I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director’s ignorance. I wasn’t sensitive to the fact that it’s very hard to direct.”

— Val Kilmer

63. “There’s nothing good about divorce.”

— Val Kilmer

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

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

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

69. “The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.”

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

72. “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

73. “In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there’s lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.”

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

75. “Acting is very immediate.”

— Val Kilmer

76. “Boy do I pray about that often-the idea of needing some physical thing more than the unity of the spirit, more than the principles of mind, soul, life, truth, Love.”

— Val Kilmer

77. “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

78. “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

79. “News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.”

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

81. “A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys – they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.”

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

83. “Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn’t do it was because of The Saint.”

— Val Kilmer

84. “Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.”

— Val Kilmer

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

— Val Kilmer

86. “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

87. “I think it ain’t that prayer doesn’t work, it’s that we don’t like the answers.”

— Val Kilmer

88. “I have faith that the shift in my physicality is crucial to the growth in my spirituality. When one sense weakens, another grows strong.”

— Val Kilmer

89. “The only thing holier than a crucifixion is a resurrection.”

— Val Kilmer

90. “Dream the big dreams and then do them.”

— Val Kilmer