David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.