"If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing."

“If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that. To this day, it's hard to find people like us, who want to kind of find deep truths, not just skirt above the top of it.”

Source : "Sherilyn Fenn talks David Lynch and how Twin Peaks should have ended". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. January 22, 2014.

“The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.”

Source : Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.36, Routledge

“Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.”

Source : Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.208, Hachette UK

“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.”

Source : "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.

“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”

“When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

“A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.”

“Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.”