Zitat des Tages von Val Kilmer:
A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
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.
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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.
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.
My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
I'm very wary of news on television.
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
News isn't even the truth on television.
I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
Acting is very immediate.
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.
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
There are a thousand ways to play any role.
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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.
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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.
I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.