Val Kilmer quotes His role in 'Top Secret!' (1984) Born: 12/31/1959 Country: usa

• A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys. (Val Kilmer)
• Acting is very immediate. (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) [war/war/war/war]
• But HEAT - playing a psychopath and guys that spend a lot of years in prison - that kind of mentality - but having to do it in a very specific period of time - it was actually good for me because I didn't get sidetracked. (Val Kilmer) [heat/prison/time]
• During Batman we had rehearsals for HEAT on the weekends and Michael Mann the director's great - he loves all the realism so we went into a bank once with flak jackets on under our suits and guns and the only person that knew was the bank manager. (Val Kilmer) [heat/manager]
• I always had an interest in religion and a kind of sense of trying to reconcile ideas I had about art with these feelings. (Val Kilmer) [interest/religion//art]
• I have a lot of musician friends, and I started hanging out with Sean Lennon a lot and his record is fantastic. (Val Kilmer)
• I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me. (Val Kilmer)
• 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) [respect/people/willpower/people]
• I sang the songs in The Doors. (Val Kilmer)
• I think what Ralph Nader did in this last election or what he has been doing with Greenpeace is amazing, knowing that he loathes the arena - he doesn't like talking - he's not very good at it. (Val Kilmer) [think]
• 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) [love/parents/think]
• I'm getting too old already. (Val Kilmer)
• I'm very wary of news on television. (Val Kilmer) [news/television]
• If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. (Val Kilmer) [look/news/watch]
• 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) [think/right/care/market]
• It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET. (Val Kilmer) [top]
• 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) [time/art/film]
• 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) [psychology]
• Kiss, Bang is out of the detective genre, and it fits in that mold, but I don't know if audiences are that familiar with the Raymond Chandler stuff. But this isn't a period one. (Val Kilmer) [kiss]
• My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress. (Val Kilmer) [high/school/grade/school]
• My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard. (Val Kilmer) [perception]
• News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television. (Val Kilmer) [news/watch/television]
• 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) [strange/consciousness]
• 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) [television/influence/culture/culture]
• So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things. (Val Kilmer)
• That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe. (Val Kilmer) [joy/art/art]
• The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great. (Val Kilmer)
• 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) [service/strange/group/leader]
• The things that are going on that really matter to us, and I identify myself as a New Yorker because I lived here ten years. (Val Kilmer) [matter]
• To me, Ghandi's a really inspiring character because he understood that in the structure of the world he lived in - that untouchability had to end. (Val Kilmer) [character/start]

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