These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

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.

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.

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.

I'd love to wake up to complete silence, white sheets, and the smell of crisp air and roses.

Some days I'm to sip you. Some days I'm to be drowned.

Our mind is like a MIRROR it reflects to the outside World what we think.

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

I grew up kissing books and bread.