201 Quotes by Val Kilmer

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys – they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

It’s a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I’ve had in my business is very few people – unfortunately, very vocal – confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I’m not like them. I’ve been accused of bein.

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.

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.

I think it ain’t that prayer doesn’t work, it’s that we don’t like the answers.

I live on a ranch that’s larger than Manhattan. That’s a weird circumstance.

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.

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