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

My workout is my meditation.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

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

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

Loving passionately, loving fiercely, loving and taking both good and bad, and at times, the damn near impossible, provides sweet chaos, fueling the pitter patter of the heart...

Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

You can't have euro bonds without more interconnection among the national budget policies.

When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.