David Lynch Quotes
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
Quotes to Explore
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
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I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.
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I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books.
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When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
