Val Kilmer Quotes

I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

I write about living, not dying.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.

There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

It's my life and my death.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

What is the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it.

All I can do is to try and make the future better.

Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.

There is a song called 'I Refuse,' and I get a bit scolding, I suppose, in a way. But it all comes back to elements of hope, and in the case of that song, it's basically, 'Okay, you're trying to suck me into this world of negativity, and I'm not going to go there. I'm going to live my own life.'

I like to live in the future.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

I remember the day Ukraine became independent. I was 20; now I am over 40. It was like one second - time goes so fast. If we wait, the next 20 years will go by. We have a choice to wait or to fight for the better future of our country. I know better than anyone: no fight, no win.