Top 100 Maclachlan Quotes
#1. Don't ever 'influence' me against my will again, MacLachlan,. Or I will load your balls into my Cuisinart and press 'chop.
Diana Duncan
#2. Sometimes you think you know more than you really do - people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.
Patricia MacLachlan
#3. My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
sea the water is a color for which there is no name.
Patricia MacLachlan
#5. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#6. My first album was The Doobie Brothers ... 'Captain and Me.' You always remember your first!
Kyle MacLachlan
#8. To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'
Kyle MacLachlan
#9. I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
Patricia MacLachlan
#10. A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'
Kyle MacLachlan
#11. When the audience first sees Cooper talking into his tape recorder at the beginning of 'Twin Peaks,' I think that's the greatest introduction to a character I've seen in my career. It tells you everything about the guy right there in a few minutes as well as bringing up a whole load of questions.
Kyle MacLachlan
#12. I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes there are leftover olives I use in pasta sauce because they didn't quite make the grade.
Kyle MacLachlan
#13. I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
Patricia MacLachlan
#14. Looking at 70 from 49, I don't see it slowing me down. Maybe I'll need a nap during the day! I'm thinking when I'm 85 I'll settle down a bit. But I'm going to fight, kicking and screaming, every step of the way.
Kyle MacLachlan
#15. Sadness is
Steam rising
Tears falling
A breath you take in
But can't let out
As hard as you try.
Patricia MacLachlan
#16. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#17. There are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.
Patricia MacLachlan
#18. '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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#19. Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
Patricia MacLachlan
#20. When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.
Kyle MacLachlan
#21. In Moonlight
No
Soft sweet paw on my cheek
No
Fur curled under my chin
Just
A sad space left behind -
Gray cat gone away.
[Ellie's poem]
Patricia MacLachlan
#22. Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of a child strengthens and deepens everything.
Kyle MacLachlan
#24. I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
Patricia MacLachlan
#25. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#26. Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.
Kyle MacLachlan
#27. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#29. Helmut Lang does a lot of very military-influenced things. You have to find the designer that suits your body the best, and he works for me.
Kyle MacLachlan
#32. I'd love to visit South America, especially Argentina, as I'm a winemaker myself. They do a fantastic malbec, so it would be a dream to sample their grapes. New Zealand would be great, too. I'm a golfer, so it would combine both my loves.
Kyle MacLachlan
#33. I can move around the floor, but I don't know if I'd call that dancing!
Kyle MacLachlan
#36. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#37. When I went back home to Seattle after filming 'Dune' in Mexico, I thought, 'Did this really happen?'
Kyle MacLachlan
#38. It's amazing to think of the nutritional responsibility you have in cooking for a kid, which then makes you wonder if you're getting enough yourself.
Kyle MacLachlan
#39. As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.
Kyle MacLachlan
#40. My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
Patricia MacLachlan
#41. All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.
Patricia MacLachlan
#42. One of the things that I learned in television, and one of the beauties of television, is that, if you have a strong writing staff, they rely on you just as much as you rely on them. They look to me or the other actors to help inspire them to take the character in interesting directions.
Kyle MacLachlan
#43. There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are.
Patricia MacLachlan
#45. I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.
Kyle MacLachlan
#46. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#47. I'm a pretty organised packer, laying out everything beforehand, as I don't like to take extra stuff. I've got a good eye for judging how much I can stuff into one suitcase. I've often not brought the right items, but I'd never avoided a chance to shop, unlike most men.
Kyle MacLachlan
#48. What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life ... Things can be good enough.
Patricia MacLachlan
#49. I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.
Kyle MacLachlan
#50. I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.
Patricia MacLachlan
#51. I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
Patricia MacLachlan
#52. Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
Patricia MacLachlan
#53. I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.
Kyle MacLachlan
#55. In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages ... I read and read and read.
Patricia MacLachlan
#56. I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.
Kyle MacLachlan
#57. I sing the songs I sang to you every night.
I sing them
so I will remember you,
hoping that you will remember me too,
even though I am here,
and you are there.
Patricia MacLachlan
#58. My breakfast consists of two cappuccinos and maybe a toasted English muffin, and that's pretty much it for me unless I decide to go a little more upscale, and then I'll have scrambled eggs.
Kyle MacLachlan
#59. I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.
Kyle MacLachlan
#60. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#61. Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.
Patricia MacLachlan
#62. My first-ever visit to a cheese factory was in Tillamook Washington ... yes, I am that nerdy.
Kyle MacLachlan
#63. I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.
Kyle MacLachlan
#64. I think most actors feel an obligation to do right by the people they're playing.
Kyle MacLachlan
#65. Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
Patricia MacLachlan
#66. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#67. You have a story in there, Lucy," she said, touching my head. "Or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word," she whispered.
Patricia MacLachlan
#68. I want most of all for you to forgive Grandfather. I want you to forgive Grandfather so I can grow up and be just like you.
Patricia MacLachlan
#70. I'm pretty, for lack of a better word, happy-go-lucky. I take things very seriously, but I'm very aware of people around me. I like to be part of a group that's working together towards something positive.
Kyle MacLachlan
#71. Some words may make you happy, some may make you said. Maybe some will make you angry. What I hope ... what I hope is that something will whisper in your ear.
Patricia MacLachlan
#72. I always liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still want to be Indiana Jones.
Kyle MacLachlan
#73. 1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.
Kyle MacLachlan
#74. I don't really think of myself as quirky; I have sort of an unusual sense of humor.
Kyle MacLachlan
#76. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#77. One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.
John MacLachlan Gray
#78. My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
Patricia MacLachlan
#79. 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?
Kyle MacLachlan
#80. Sometimes for an afternoon snack, I'll get some tortilla chips and half an avocado, and I'll just eat that like guacamole.
Kyle MacLachlan
#81. I try to travel as light as possible to avoid baggage issues. Los Angeles airport is notorious for baggage delays, so I'll often FedEx a suitcase ahead or back so I don't need to stand around; it also minimises problems at check-in.
Kyle MacLachlan
#82. If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special.
Kyle MacLachlan
#83. Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.
Kyle MacLachlan
#85. I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.
Kyle MacLachlan
#86. Everyone has their 'Showgirls.' We remember the great films actors have been in, and the rest get forgotten. But occasionally, people like to revisit the ones that get swept aside.
Kyle MacLachlan
#88. You will have a story in there ... or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.
Patricia MacLachlan
#90. Sometimes poetry
words
give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.
Patricia MacLachlan
#91. I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off ... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia MacLachlan
#92. I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
Patricia MacLachlan
#93. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#94. Nothing is more incendiary to an ill-advised, unanticipated tryst than to be enclosed in a darkened, plush-upholstered, moving chamber. Privacy, Intimacy, Darkness, Transience: the Four Whorsemen of the Apocalypse.
John MacLachlan Gray
#95. I like eating, cooking and shopping. It all goes together.
Kyle MacLachlan
#96. For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.
Kyle MacLachlan
#97. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#98. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
#99. Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.
Kyle MacLachlan
#100. 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.
Kyle MacLachlan
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