Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

To me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That gives a touch of mystery.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.