Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer
Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret!, then the cult classic Real Genius, as well as the blockbuster action film Top Gunand the swords and sorcery fantasy film Willow...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 December 1959
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
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.
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.
Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?
I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.
A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.