Val Kilmer Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.”

“I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.”

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

“The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.”

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

“When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.”

“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.”

“We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.”

“With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.”