To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

I've worked hard to get here; I would like to thank all the people who helped me.

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

I'm a very independent woman.

I'll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, 'Don't be a tape player hater,' in 'Country Man,' I don't think I ever laughed harder. We didn't know where we were gonna put that in a song, but we knew we had to make it into a song. I just remember laughing and being so proud of such a goofy little line.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Nothing in the Middle East is ever forgotten or forgiven.

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Ignorance is bliss

A small step toward recovery is giant progress.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.

People are afraid of everything.

And you know what - and I don't mean this in tongue in cheek way - but it's like deja vu. When I walked in to WCW they were producing wrestling on a little teeny sound stage at Disney, okay? I'm walking into TNA and they're producing wrestling in a little teeny sound stage at Universal.

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.