"Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing."
"Hamlet is a little daunting."
"Hollywood is not good when it comes to age."
"I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession."
"I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me."
"I really fight for my privacy."
"I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul."
"I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States."
"Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart."
"My workout is my meditation."
"The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer."
"The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?"
"The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London."
"The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs."
"I like to go and watch 'Blade Runner,' which made no sense but which I loved going into that world. I think people loved going into the world of 'Dune' with all of its problems."
"I'm proud of 'The Hidden.' I feel like we took a B-movie and kind of turned it into an A-minus action movie. We kind of elevated the material a little bit. It's got a great car-chase scene at the very beginning. It has some terrific moments in it, some funny stuff. It's a great rental."
"'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience."
"When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day long up in Canada. That was really fun. We were on these back roads with these great cars."
"I've always enjoyed drinking wine, ever since I was in college. My appreciation really took off when I began to visit Napa. I was toying with an idea of making wine in Napa, but it's prohibitively expensive, and the competition is fierce."
"I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades."
"Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in the writing and acting on both!"
"When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another."
"The way 'Showgirls' was presented to me, it sounded like an interesting project, and it kind of just went off the rails as we were doing it."
"I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant."
"Walla Walla is where I make wine, with Eric Dunham. He and I partnered up on a small project for me. We make pretty good cabernet and syrah."
