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Top Gun actor Val Kilmer dies at age 65

Quotes

    • 88:88
      I enjoy the depth and soul the piece has that Twain had for his fellow man and America,
      The Manila Times
      he told Variety in 2018.
    • 88:88
      In an unflinching attempt to empower directors, actors and other collaborators to honor the truth and essence of each project, an attempt to breathe Suzukian life into a myriad of Hollywood moments, I had been deemed difficult and alienated the head of every major studio, ... I'm Your Huckleberry."
      The Manila Times
      he wrote in his memoir
    • 88:88
      I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some. I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed,
      The Manila Times
      he says toward the end of "Val," the 2021 documentary on his career
    • 88:88
      I didn't want the part. I didn't care about the film. The story didn't interest me,
      The Manila Times
      he wrote in his memoir
    • 88:88
      'It ... It's a job now, Val. A lark. We'll get through it.' ... I was as sad as I've ever been on a set,
      The Manila Times
      The older actor told the younger at one point ... Kilmer wrote in his memoir
    • 88:88
      You were a smart, challenging, brave, uber-creative firecracker,
      Irish Times
      he said in an Instagram post
    • 88:88
      Marlon Brando
      You are confusing your talent with the size of your paycheck ... I don’t like Val Kilmer, I don’t like his work ethic and I don’t want to be associated with him ever again.”
      Irish Times
      Marlon Brando, his co-star in The Island of Dr Moreau, reportedly told him
    • 88:88
      Joel Schumacher
      I pray I don’t work with [Kilmer] again ... we had two weeks where he did not speak to me, but it was bliss.”
      Irish Times
      Joel Schumacher, who directed him in Batman Forever, said
    • 88:88
      Some people expect an actor to be like a wooden Indian, to do what he’s told and never open his mouth,
      Irish Times
      Winkler added
    • 88:88
      Jarrett Jack
      When you're in it, you can barely move and people have to help you stand up and sit down,
      The Manila Times
      Kilmer said in "Val," in lines spoken by his son Jack, who voiced the part of his father in the film because of his inability to speak
    • 88:88
      Tony Scott
      I will be called ‘Iceman’ by every pilot at every airport I ever go to.”
      Brisbane Times
      Once on Tony Scott’s set, though, he was energised by the film and for the rest of his life, he said
    • 88:88
      Michael Mann
      While working with Val on ‘Heat' I always marvelled at the range, the brilliant variability within the powerful current of Val's possessing and expressing character,
      Newsmax
      director Michael Mann said in a statement Tuesday night