Val Kilmer Quotes

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

You got to look nice. If you got 10 kids, they'll talk about you if you don't look nice.

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

I never know where women are coming from.

I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. So I'll say, 'Gimme five!' If a boy wants a handshake, I'll just give him a hug.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?

I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.

I felt like there was a certain standard that we held 'Strangers' to, so I think about that whenever I work on something.

West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they were supposed to and did things with the guys they were supposed to.

There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

If a community decides this is how you're going to dress and these are the punishments, who are we to say different?

I go not back of the convention, to make distinctions among its’ members.

The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don't think that's fair.