Val Kilmer came across a guy who told him what it was like to slap on a tattoo - forever. He told Val that a tattoo was like "wearing the same dirty T-shirt" every day. For the rest of your life.
That's what one co-worker likened his own skin art to when the actor admired the work and was thinking of getting his own inking done.
Kilmer, who plays a heavily tattooed thug in new movie 'Felon', recalls the incident: "When I was a kid about 14, I worked in a warehouse and there was the guy who had a tattoo - a standard sort of hula girl lady thing that looked all nasty.
"I said, `What's that like? I'm thinking of getting a tattoo,' and he said, `Imagine waking up in the same T-shirt for 15 years.'
"That sort of soured me because he was an ugly dude so I was picturing him waking up in the T-shirt. It still haunts me."
