American - Actor | December 31, 1959 -
What I do for a living is listen.
Val Kilmer
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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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.
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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