I already felt disengaged with my contemporaries.

My workout is my meditation.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age

I really fight for my privacy.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.

I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.