'Private jets are nice, but I haven't had more fun on them than on Southwest Airlines. It depends on who you're with.' -Val Kilmer
Long before actor Val Kilmer polayed rock icon Jim Morrison in 1991's The Doors or the caped crusader in 1995's Batman Forever, he was a nobody who had been offered a role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film The Outsiders -- a role he turned down due to "prior commitments." The film would help make stars out of a number of young male actors, including Matt Dillon and Patrick Swayze, but Kilmer found stardom just a couple of years later in Top Gun, starring alongside another breakout star from The Outsiders, Tom Cruise.
