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.

Val Kilmer

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I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.

sacrifice fun character

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it. by Val Kilmer

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

normal-life normal meaningful

It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.

being-yourself everyday art

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

horizon vision dream

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not. by Val Kilmer

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

pretense normal

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.

respect couple sleep

I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

land spiritual thinking

It looked like it might not work out with Michael Keaton, so they asked Joel Schumacher, `Who do you want for Batman?` When he said me, I asked my agent, `Why? Who did they not get?` I`d met with Joel a couple of times before about other (movies). I didn`t know anything in terms of the cast, story or anything, but I said, `Sure, sounds like fun.` - On accepting his role as Batman.

work-out couple fun

The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

bored character thinking

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, b... by Val Kilmer

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

born giving compliment

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

beatty stuck next

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.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging bu... by Val Kilmer

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

challenges joy art

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind. by Val Kilmer

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

mind believe thinking

It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I c... by Val Kilmer

It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can`t explain.

hurt missing kids

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced. I was very hurt and very angry and so was she. But when kids are involved, you either become friends with respect or you become mortal enemies.

hurt kids children

I'm very wary of news on television. by Val Kilmer

I'm very wary of news on television.

news television

Once is more than generous for any lifetime. by Val Kilmer

Once is more than generous for any lifetime.

generous lifetime

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.

fake-people real thinking

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

creative people interesting