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.

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.

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

Self love is an oceanand your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill overinto the lives of the peopleyou hold dear. But you must come first.

They're only memories, Sam. They might comfort us on days of self-loathing, but that's all. We have to consciously move forward.

We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.

When you see the divinity in others, you are Divine. When you see ego in others, you are egoistic.

Life is not life at all without delight.

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

We're taking back the night

It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.