I always loved experimenting in film.

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.

What's the difference between depression and South America?If you really had to, you could conquer South America.

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

I had been rejected, but I was still in love.