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

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.

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.

Don’t expect the world to dish you your wishes, go out and serve yourself.

Respect is a really powerful magic too, you know.

I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion

People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.

Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from society

Always stay true to yourselves.

I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.

What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that.

When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.