Val Kilmer Quotes

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.

I have to accept my life is different to most people.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.

But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.

You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

I don't want to make statements about where I'm gonna be in 30 years. But as of right now, I definitely have a different relationship with the way I look. It's not all-consuming.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.

Context shapes who you are.

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

When you inherit a segment that people grew up with, they are like, "This is not what I'm used to." It's hard. There's a period where you're trying to do what people are used to and fulfill what they miss. After a while you just have got to shake it off and be yourself.

What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.