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Born
December 31, 1959 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth name
Val Edward Kilmer

Spouse
Joanne Whalley(February 28, 1988 – February 1, 1996) (divorced, 2 children)

QUOTES:

Upon playing Batman: “I’ve done an absurdly commercial cartoon and now I’m more likely to get hired for a job I couldn’t get hired for before, because I hadn’t done enough movies. It’s so rare when an actor gets hired because he’s right for the role – it just doesn’t figure into it.”

The only time it’s ever like work is when you don’t like what you’ve done.

“I was going to movies and watching TV, going to the theater a little bit. It was, like, ‘Wow, you could make a living doing this? Great! What could be better?’ There isn’t anything I could choose better.” – On why he initially choose acting as a career while still a young man.

Being successful doesn’t change things. There’s a painful, lonely part of acting because you’re always waiting. The thing about being a performer is doing, and when you have to wait, it’s the same pain as when you’re starting out and have no job. You think that thing will go away, but it doesn’t. It just shifts. I remember Robert Duvall saying that being a successful actor is all about finding interesting hobbies, because if you don’t have the right hobby, you die. It’s very hard to maintain interest. Most actors don’t. They become a little clichéd. You learn how to do tricks and stuff.