201 Quotes by Val Kilmer

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.

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.

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

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

It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can’t explain.

It’s so early do you want some coffee or something?

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.

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

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.