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

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.

Being on stage is what I enjoy.

Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied and most men live only for the gratification of it.

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

People have to evolve.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.

I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.

I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Once America's CEOs get back to the business of growing their companies rather than growing their share prices, shareholder value will take care of itself, and all Americans will share in the higher wages and other benefits of a renewed era of economic growth.

I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm very casual.