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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser.

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.