201 Quotes by Val Kilmer

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.

Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

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

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.

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

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.