I don’t think of my life as a cliche, but I’m a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name – I mean, who’s named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
It’s the first time that I’ve ever had an art show based on a film, but it’s a photography collage.
There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they’ve made billions.
It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
I’ve found that Hollywood’s a really honest business. They don’t pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they’re real up-front about it.
It’s important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it’s a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.
In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there’s lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.
YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He’s so courageous.
You just don’t understand humility until you have children and get divorced. I was very hurt and very angry and so was she. But when kids are involved, you either become friends with respect or you become mortal enemies.
It’s so early do you want some coffee or something?
You will see this book takes twists and turns. Welcome to the pinball machine of my mind. Here, authenticity lives with eccentricity. A delicious diet, if a bit unsteady. My poems, my puns, my spiritual side trips, and the names of friends, both famous and infamous, dropped along the way – I can’t stop myself. I can’t help myself. So come along. It’s dangerous, but indulge me. We will travel with lightning speed because I’ve led a lightning-speed life.
I don’t know at what point you stop hurting and start healing.
When you dream dreams when you’re young, do them before you have a reason not to. When you are young, that is when all the dreams come true. Believe me do them all. Nothing bad will happen to you and all things good.
I think it ain’t that prayer doesn’t work, it’s that we don’t like the answers.
I have faith that the shift in my physicality is crucial to the growth in my spirituality. When one sense weakens, another grows strong.
Boy do I pray about that often-the idea of needing some physical thing more than the unity of the spirit, more than the principles of mind, soul, life, truth, Love.
Dream the big dreams and then do them.
Khalil Gibran says a soul mate is the guardian of the other person’s solitude.
God wants us to walk but the devil sends a limo.
The only thing holier than a crucifixion is a resurrection.