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.

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.

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.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

Work, home, or play we should all aspire to inspire everyday.

When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going

Breathe in that vital connection to the life source and sensual beauty everywhere. Feel loved and strong.

You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.