I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what? Val Kilmer More Quotes by Val Kilmer More Quotes From 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 plansluckylying 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. Val Kilmer fourmatteryears 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 literatureselfpeople Acting is very immediate. Val Kilmer acting 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. Val Kilmer starsrealbelieve 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 threeparentthinking 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 financial-goalsbelievethinking New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously. Val Kilmer hard-worksuccessfulhome 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 ignorancefactsthinking I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this. Val Kilmer hollywood-hillsrealityinteresting 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 mediaculturetelevision 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 serial-killerpsychologywant 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. Val Kilmer criminalscitizensrats 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 mountaindollarsfather I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar. Val Kilmer oscarswinningwant Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste. Val Kilmer fashiontastedoe Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging. Val Kilmer making-moneycreativechallenges Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future. Val Kilmer filmmadewant It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry. Val Kilmer soundmayjobs I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance. Val Kilmer manhattancircumstances
