Val Kilmer

“My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.”

“A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.”

“Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.”

“If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.”

“It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.”

“It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.”

“There are a thousand ways to play any role.”

“Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.”

“Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.”

“I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.”

“I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.”

“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.”

“I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.”

“Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.”

“Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.”

“The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.”

“If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.”

“I'm very wary of news on television.”

“You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.”

“Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.”