I can move around the floor, but I don't know if I'd call that dancing!

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

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

Poor motivation and alertness cause complacency

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.