When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.

Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.

If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.