David Lynch Quotes
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
Quotes to Explore
-
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
-
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
-
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
-
Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
-
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
-
Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
-
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
-
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
-
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
-
I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
-
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
-
I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
-
Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
-
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
-
I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
-
Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
-
I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
-
Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
-
I do want to be involved in quality projects that say something positive about the Latino community.
-
I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.
-
I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.
-
'Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result
-
I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that's in other languages and not using stars and using real people - things that they generally don't do in mainstream films.
-
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
